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2011-05-07T13:59:38Z 2011-05-07T13:59:38Z Weinbaum, Marvin G. Katner, Garth Todd 10000-01-01 1996 The process by which the State of Israel assimilates new Jewish migrants, referred to in Hebrew as olim, has changed drastically in the last two decades. This is especially apparent with the most recent wave, or aliya, of migrants from the former Soviet Union. Some critics assert that the changes initiated by Jewish national and state institutions have undermined the success of the assimilation process, or klita. The objective conditions of those olim who have been arriving since October of 1989 appear to bear this out. While the group as a whole has been fully housed, apartments for a significant number are substandard, overcrowded, or located at a distance from the primary metropolitan areas. Forty percent of the olim remain unemployed. In the competition for already scarce jobs with veteran Israelis, social tensions are on the rise. Issues of public policy such as these can be critically evaluated with regard to the dynamic between three elements: committed leadership, adequate leadership, and public support. It is rare, however, that these elements occur simultaneously or with equal intensity during any specific period in Israeli history. Factors particular to the neo-corporatist character of the Israeli state have prevented from being as well-funded and efficiently coordinated as they are usually portrayed. This, in turn, has eroded the enthusiastic support of the Israeli public for national and state klita policies. As long as the process of formulating and implementing such policies are dominated by struggles between a number of semi-autonomous policy-makers with contradictory ideologies and political ambitions Israeli public opinion will remain negative, particularly towards the new olim. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:59:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9702555.pdf: 15864398 bytes, checksum: 38b8099a1eb049b99405f5787d96db68 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:01:41Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:29:17-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only 9780591087987 AAI9702555 (UMI)AAI9702555 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23029 eng Copyright 1996 Katner, Garth Todd Political Science, General Political Science, Public Administration Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies Our brothers' keepers: Societal reactions to the Russian aliya in Israel, 1989-1992 text Political Science Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.