Israel’s New Tourism by Ari Bussel People have already forgotten the difficulty of the new wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel. Absorption? Assimilation? Having to build new neighborhoods and new cities to accommodate all those new immigrants? It was an intelligent migration, in two respects: holders of advanced degrees in fields Israel could never use, educated and experienced experts in their respective fields (from medicine to music, across the sciences and everything in between) who suddenly had to clean streets to earn a living; and many, it is said, chose to immigrate to Israel even though...