Russian Jewish Immigration To Israel In The 1990s
Russian Jewish immigration to Israel began en masse in the 1990s when the liberal government of Mikhail Gorbachev opened the borders of the USSR and allowed Jews to leave the country for Israel.
Between January 1989 and December 2002, 1.1 million Russians immigrated to Israel (including 100,000 of whom emigrated to third countries shortly afterward). According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, 240,000 of the immigrants, or 26%, were not considered Jews under Jewish law, but were eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return due to Jewish ancestry or marriage to a Jew.
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