Yerida (Hebrew: ירידהTranslit.: yeridaTranslated: descent) is the somewhat derogatory term, widely used to mean emigration by Jews and Israelis from the Land of Israel -- and since its establishment in 1948 -- the State of Israel. The opposite action, immigration by Jews to Israel, is called Aliyah ("ascent"). “Hebrew†redirects here. ... Hebrew uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel points. ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A memorial statue in Hanko, Finland, commemorating the thousands of emigrants who left the country to start a new life in the United States Emigration is the act and the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle in another country. ... Kingdom of Israel: Early ancient historical Israel — land in pink is the approximate area under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Emigrants from Israel are known as yordim ("those who go down [from Israel]"). Immigrants to Israel are known as olim ("those who go up [to Israel]").
While there have been far fewer yordim ("emigrants") than olim ("immigrants"), Israeli society has had a tendency to worry about the number of emigrants. A number of reasons are cited for emigration, among them hopes of better economic conditions elsewhere, nostalgia, or political reasons. Statistics are somewhat unreliable, as Israeli authorities count as yordim any Israeli who has stayed abroad for more than a year, notwithstanding his or her intentions to return to Israel. Estimates give 25,000 yordim for 2005 and 60,000 for 2002-2005. [1].
In the past decade nearly a million immigrants came to Israel from the former Soviet Union.
Many Jews who emigrated to Israel have moved elsewhere, known as yerida ("descent" [from the Holy Land]), due to its economic problems or due to disillusionment with political conditions and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The waves of immigration to the United States at the turn of the 19th century, massacre of European Jewry during the Holocaust, and the foundation of the state of Israel (and subsequent flight of Jews from hostile Arab nations) all resulted in substantial shifts in the population centers of world Jewry during the 20th century.
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