JERUSALEM POST
By Lidar Grave-Lazi

The majority of the program participants have a background in engineering, exact sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, life sciences, and medicine, according to the ministry.

Some 230 academics who emigrated from Israel returned from abroad this past year, the Economy Ministry announced on Monday. The academics relocated within the framework of a government program – Returning to Industry and Academia in Israel – launched jointly in 2013 by the Economy, Immigration and Absorption, and Finance ministries in collaboration with the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education.

“Many Israelis have broken through and integrated into the leading and most innovative institutions and companies in the world. However in the end Israel is home and we are pleased that the program has succeeded to attract these leading Israelis home,” said Economy Minister Naftali Bennett.

According to the chief scientist office at the Economy Ministry, some 4,000 academics living abroad joined the program since its inception last year and expressed an interest in returning to Israel. These academics account for roughly 50 percent of PhD and MD graduates and some 27% of all Israeli academics with undergraduate or masters degrees who finished their studies in Israel after 1985, and have lived abroad for a year or more……

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