Israel’s population grew by just 0.9% this year, far below the long-standing annual rate of at least 1.5%. The reasons include deepening social rifts, a soaring cost of living and a growing burden borne almost exclusively by the working public.
Around 150,000 Israelis have left the country over the past two and a half years. These are strong, talented people, the kind of people countries seek to import, not export. Ignoring the flight of human capital is a strategic choice, and it carries an irreversible price.
Opening the first Israel Hayom Summit in the US, Omer Lachmanovitch emphasizes the need for an "unapologetically Zionist voice" and unveiled the "Eleventh million" project to encourage aliyah. "Saul Bellow once said that there is only one way to defeat an enemy - to write well. That is why Israel Hayom exists."
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Israel Hayom launched the "11th Million," a Zionist call to turn a vision into reality: the immigration of one million Jews to the State of Israel over the next decade.
