Document #1353880
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1991 states that "Israel welcomes Jewish
immigrants, including Jewish refugees, to whom it gives automatic
citizenship and residence rights" (1992, 1434).
Attached please find Response to
Information Request ISR11097 of 15 June 1992 on the aid provided by
the government of Israel for new Jewish immigrants from the former
USSR.
Attached please also find a copy of a
document entitled Soviet Jewish Immigration to Israel: Political
and Economic Implications which provides comprehensive
information on the policy of the government of Israel towards
Jewish immigrants from the former USSR as well as the government
programmes available for these immigrants.
While not elaborating on the benefits, privileges and rights to which Soviet immigrants in Israel are entitled, the attached New York Times article which reports on the problems which immigrants from the former USSR face in Israel, including housing, unemployment and underemployment, may be noteworthy
(21 June 1992).
Information on the benefits, privileges and
rights to which non-Jewish immigrants from the former USSR are
entitled is currently unavailable to the DIRB.
Additional information on the above subject
is currently unavailable to the DIRB.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1991. 1992. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
The New York Times. 21 June 1991.
Sabra Chartrand. "For Soviet Jews, the Jobs Don't Match the
Dream."
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 15 June 1992. Response to
Information Request ISR11097.
The New York Times. 21 June 1991.
Sabra Chartrand. "For Soviet Jews, the Jobs Don't Match the
Dream."
Reiser, Stewart. Spring 1992. Soviet
Jewish Immigration to Israel: Political and Economic
Implications. Los Angeles: The Wilstein Institute.