Fifty-five percent of the estimated 200,000 Israelis in North America live in the New York City and vicinity, while 15 percent live on the West Coast, 15 percent in Canada and 15 percent are scattered throughout the United States. These details and others concerning the Israeli community in America are included in a special report prepared by Eli Paz, the representative of the Israeli Ministry of Labor in the United States.
According to the report, there are about 12,000 Israeli students and academicians in the U.S.; 85 percent are in the 26-36 age group; 77 percent of them are married and most of them are studying for or hold M.A. or Ph.D. degrees. Engineering, according to the report, is the most popular study course among the Israeli students here, with science, economics and computers following on the list.
The Yom Kippur War, the report notes, has increased by 50 percent the number of Israeli academicians who returned to Israel in 1974, with the help of the Labor Ministry office in New York, compared to 1973, reaching a total of 500. More than 7400 Israelis are presently registered at the Academic Department of the Labor Ministry here for help with their plans to return to Israel.
The report points out that there is scant information on the non-academic Israeli community in America. The report says, however, that 75 percent of the 200,000 Israelis here are working as technicians, drivers, nurses, salesmen and saleswomen and various other jobs.
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