ABSTRACT
While a good deal has been written on the sources and forces that brought this migrant tidal wave to Israel, far less has been written on emigration from Israel. The burden of research done until suggests that an individual's level of commitment is a major predictor of the predisposition to emigrate. Sobel tended to partially reinforce earlier studies by playing down the relative role of the economic factor in his study, arguing that Israelis are probably the richest wave of immigrants to reach the US in this century. Shapira and Ben Yitzhak found that commitment was the common predictor of emigration predisposition for all ethnic groups in Israel and interpreted this as a sign of collectivistic integration and identification. In view of the centrality of commitment and the question of class as factors in emigration from Israel, it should prove useful to analyze the importance of these two elements among kibbutz members, a group not covered in the national sample.
