The Russian Ha-Alia

It began in the late 80s.
After a long diplomatic silence, the USSR started its communication with Israel.
It was a long way in those first years. Jewish people flew from Moscow to Venice or Rome. Then they stopped in the special camps for some months. They waited for the decision of the World Jewish Community, which was calling: ”Joint”. But people had their choice of country where they could get to. It could be Israel, the USA, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Germany or Austria. Finally, just 5-6 percent of people got to Israel. In the 1989, some officials of the world Jewish communities and Israel held negotiations about the Jewish country of Israel that could absorb all streams of Jewish people.
Fact that many people didn’t want to lose the possibility of having their choice of country for emigration. Israel was a small country that needed simple workers – people for building works, cleaners, or factory workers. But there were teachers, technical designers, musicians, and theater actors. A major part of them lost their profession. They studied something new. Many medical people studied their job again, but many designers, musicians, and teachers cleared big Supermarkets or got their jobs in factories or garages. The situation was better for programmers and other computer people. The Israeli High-Tech industry started its development, offering many jobs.
I remember many people who didn’t like Israel’s life. Some of them got back to the Past USSR space, and some of them moved to the next emigration. But somebody had no money to get back or to the next country. It was national policy to keep people for their empty packs. A major part of the people came to Israel without money. All salary was gone for paying the apartment rent or for the mortgage if somebody could buy their own home. Israelis said that all new people did “Ha-Aliya”, which means they LIFTED to the country. But a lot of Russian people said that they FELL into the country. Burn in Israel said that there was a great Russian mafia. Maybe somebody was envious of Russian education (they say that many Alims could buy their diplomas in Russia). Or they were afraid of their places of work. But a major part of “Russian” spent not a long time for a low qualification job, and they changed it for a job in the High-Tech, for example, leaving the simple job for local people who didn’t finish school or for the foreign workers from Asia.         
Anyway, people of the 90s developed all of Israel's industry and culture. For example, there was a theater project “Gesher” that means “Bridge”. They created the theater with a Russian-language performance. There were Russian dramas on the stage. There were Russian actors who played that stuff. Many famous Russian musicians began to teach music in colleges and schools. One of them is Viacheslav Ganelin. His trio kept leadership in the Awangard Jazz Music on the World. I visited his concerts in Minsk in the 70s and 80s.
Since the 80s and 90s, more than a million people have come from the Past USSR space. Every fourth was Russian-speaking, who formed the Russian space in the media and culture. There are people who listen to the Russian radio broadcasting in Israel and watch the Russian TV. There are Russian newspapers (immigrant’s press) that are printed there. And a Russian salary that couldn’t be as big as for an Israeli-born manager or businessman.
In the 2000s, Israel's Hi-Tech fell. There were many causes for it. Many firms were closed. Their business stopped. The owners of High-Tech took their workers to Canada, Australia, or the USA. 
Time is going. Nowadays, many medical people are not young. Their children have no money to get an academic education at an Israeli university. Somebody from them could learn in other countries. But some of them sometimes don’t go back home because the salary for medicine would be bigger in European countries or in Canada. And we expect the crisis in Israeli medicine in the next ten years.