ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses 389 Israeli-born students in grades four to nine, probes their views regarding the way new immigrant from the defunct U.S.S.R. are being integrated into the Israeli education system. It examines the self reported behavior and attitudes of native Israelis toward new immigrants. The chapter focuses on Israeli students' attitudes toward immigrant children from the former U.S.S.R. The chapter explores the ways in which Israeli students receive the Russian new-immigrants, as well as the way the Israelis perceive the new immigrants' culture. The theoretical framework that was applied in the chapter was made up of a combination of the theoretical approach of ethnicity and the theory of "new sociology of education."The chapter also examine the dominant/subordinate relations with regard to immigrants who, according to the concepts of cultural hege-many and cultural legitimization, are expected to forget about their culture, and to become Israeli like the Israeli bom students.
