Quote Originally Posted by Lampada View Post
Почему "гражданами второго сорта"?

Lampada, I found this article in English about the difficulties of Russian-speaking, ex-Soviet Jews in Israel.

Key quotes:

Many [of the immigrants] are highly educated but because of the fixed corruption of Israeli society (you get ahead by whom you know, by connections, by proteksiyah), language barriers, and many other factors, they are basically marginalized.
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They segregate themselves within a local Russian culture that appears threatening to many Israelis. Roughly one-third are not Jewish according to religious criteria.