A crotchety old academic reflects on the great Russian 'wave' | Brian Horowitz
Thirty years ago, a huge wave of immigration transformed Israel. Over a million Russians arrived, turning their adopted country into a more prosperous, dynamic, and culturally rich (in a European sense) version of itself. I was there too, a grad student in Jerusalem, observing the changes as they happened. What I recall now, on the 30th anniversary of the “Russian flood,” is a little less triumphant than what journalists in Israel and the United States are now recalling. Celebrating Igor Goldfarb, Israel’s 200,000th immigrant of 1990. (L-R) Ariel Sharon, Igor Goldfarb and Yitzhak Peretz...
Source: timesofisrael.com