While 71 percent of the Soviet Jews who immigrated since September 1989 want to remain in Israel, 52 percent say they are advising friends and relatives in the Soviet Union to postpone their aliyah, according to a poll taken by the Tazpit Research Institute in October.
The results, published here last week, contrast with those of a Tazpit poll conducted in June which showed that 37 percent of the new olim were advising their relatives to stay home.
Aharon Fein, who conducted the poll, said 22 percent of the respondents were advising friends and relatives to immigrate to Israel, 16 percent suggested another country and 10 percent counseled them to remain of the poll was that nearly 30 percent of the 809 Soviet olim questioned hoped to be living somewhere else within the next five years. Five percent said they would like to return to the Soviet Union.
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