ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the educational achievements of native-born children and of immigrant children from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel and Germany. The comparison of children from immigrant families who came from the FSU to natives, in Israel and Germany offers a rare opportunity to analyze the integration processes of a rather similar group of immigrants in different national settings. Two major groups of immigrants from the FSU moved to Germany since 1989: ethnic Germans ('Spataussiedler') and Jewish refugees ('Kontingentfluchtlinge'). The education system in Israel consists of five main types of schools: Jewish state schools, Jewish state-religious schools, Arab state schools, Arab Christian schools, and Jewish independent schools, most of which belong to the Jewish ultra-orthodox communities. The surprising result of our study concerns the discrepancy between countries in the magnitude of the native-immigrant gaps among parents and children.
