How Israel Can Stop Alienating American Jews: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Last week, Politico’s Ben Smithpointed me to a very strange Israeli government advertisingcampaign, which was aimed at persuading Israelis in the U.S. togo home.
By some estimates, hundreds of thousands of Israelis livein the U.S., including many exceptional scientists andphysicians, and Israel believes they should be working at home.So the Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption placedbillboards in several American cities that were meant to scareexpatriates into believing that their children would cease to beIsraeli if they remained in the U.S.