Israel emigration to UK outstrips aliya, says report
Israeli emigration to the United Kingdom surpassed British immigration to the Jewish State by three-to-two, offsetting any Israeli population gains caused by aliya, according to a new report released Wednesday.
Based on data from the 2011 British census and other sources, the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research asserted that this “net migratory dividend for Britain’s Jewish community” actually contributed to keeping Jewish population levels stable there during the first decade of the new millennium.
Despite this increase, however, the estimated Israeli-British population of just under 25,000 as of 2011 is “considerably lower” than others have claimed, JPR researchers stated.
Last month the group reported that England’s Orthodox community is increasing by nearly five percent a year, while the wider, non-haredi Jewish population is decreasing by 0.3%. Haredi birth rates are six to seven children per couple, more than three times the average UK national rate. If high haredi birth rates continue, half of all Jewish children and around 30% of young Jewish adults living in the United Kingdom will be haredi by 2031.
Overall, Israelis constitute 6% of English Jewry, with some 8870 having moved to England during the 2000s. Around 6400 Britons immigrated to Israel during the same period.
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