A new study came out today on a topic that has been all too ignored in the religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox communities, communities that should have cared most about this topic.

In the past two years, thousands of second and third-generation Israeli doctors, engineers, and highly educated people have been leaving Israel and choosing not to come back.

They are not leaving because of the war or regional tensions. They are leaving because they have been told for the past three years that there is no place for them in Israel.

I have seen people here call them “secular elites,” “Kaplanists,” “leftist sons of former elites,” and all kinds of other names.

In 2005, when 8,600 Jews were driven out of their homes in Gush Katif, we were all rightfully outraged and heartbroken. “A Jew does not expel another Jew” was the wording on the bumper stickers.

But there is more than one way to expel a person from their home. It isn’t just by pulling someone out of their home the way it was done in Gush Katif. When you tell Jews they have no place in Israel, when you make it clear that the more of a majority you have in the Knesset, the more you will crush them and drive them out, they leave or choose not to return. They didn’t choose to........

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