ABSTRACT
Some émigrés maintained that they simply felt uncomfortable within the Israeli environment and that the nation is too small, conformist, competitive and socially demanding for their liking. In his book on Israeli emigration, Zvi Sobel (1986: 77) asserts “Repeatedly I was struck by the extent and depth of frustration expressed by a wide range of individuals with respect to this factor of limited opportunity that is tied to a natural and unassailable limitation of smallness – physical and demographic.”
