Israel has seen emigration double since the attacks of October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza. While some are choosing to leave for security reasons, among those choosing exile are activists weary of war and feeling increasingly isolated amid their country’s illiberal drift.
Are they burning their passports? Otherwise, this barely matters. They will still be counted as residents for months and possibly still contributing to the state fiscally. As long as they are just physically leaving the country they are little more than an uncomfortable externality on the hosting countries.
Why would they still be counted as residents after they emigrated? And what would burning their passports do? Pretty sure that would just make them unable to travel.
Resident figures are not updated instantly, so it would take a statistically significant action to counteract any claims by the Israeli government.
I meant burning their passports figuratively, but there are estimates of around 10% of the Israeli population holding a double citizenship, and I am quite sure these are overrepresented in the “emigrating” population. Those should renounce the Israeli citizenship if they really wanted to send any kind of message on top of just saving their asses from any kind of retaliation + bad publicity.