A study by Prof. Dan Ben-David warns:for every academic who returns to Israel, 4.5 are leaving

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by Ifi Reporter Category:Hitech May 31, 2019

The most educated Israelis with the most vital skills for the success of the economy are moving abroad at an increasing rate, says economist Dan Ben-David in a new study published by the Shoresh Institute for Economic and Social Research. According to the CBS data, in 2017, 4.5 Israeli academic graduates left Israel with academic degrees - three years earlier, the ratio was only 2.6: 1.
Ben-David, president of the Shoresh Institute and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, continues his previous research on the brain drain from Israel. He focuses on immigration to the United States, where the universities "are at the academic summit almost exclusively."
According to him, a cousin approached hundreds of Israeli researchers employed in the United States on a regular basis, received data from them, and based his work only on those who are permanent or on tenure.
33,000 Israelis with academic degrees are currently living abroad, but the problem of brain drain is focused on doctoral researchers who have been trained in Israel but are not returning to integrate into Israeli academic and research institutions.
According to the CBS, 11% of those with a third degree from an Israeli institution live and work abroad today, compared with 9.9% in 2013. In some areas this phenomenon is particularly common. Thus, about a quarter (24.2%) of those with a third degree in mathematics from institutions in Israel work abroad, as do 20% of those with a Ph.D. in computer sciences and 17.5% of third degree holders in pharmacy. , Aeronautical engineering and bio-medical engineering are increasing: 16% -17% of Israeli doctors in each of these fields work and live abroad.
Today, postdoctoral researchers are required to undertake postdoctoral training at a leading research institution in the US or Europe as a condition for admission back to academic faculty in Israel, so most of them emigrate from Israel for a few years and then discover that they can not return to work At the Israeli academia because of a lack of standards, and the US standard of living, wages, research budgets, and the possibility of collaborating with colleagues encourage them to stay abroad.

According to data from the US Department of State's Bureau of Education and Culture, some 1,100 Israeli researchers are temporary employees in the United States, the highest number of researchers from any foreign country in the United States, and the highest in absolute numbers.
The new study examines the rates of emigration from Israel to abroad, and focuses on three populations: academic researchers, doctors and industrial workers in the high-tech sector, together with fewer than 130,000 of the Israeli population - only 1.4% of the country's population. The limited number of them, the quality advantage of the economy relies on them, and the extent of immigration abroad must be of concern to the decision-makers. "Because of the fragile size of this group, leaving a critical mass of it - even if several tens of thousands - can have catastrophic consequences for the entire country," says Ben-David.
The new study examined the top 40 departments of US universities in six areas: chemistry, physics, philosophy, computer science, economics, and business administration, according to the average number of citations per faculty member.
Ben-David found that in the leading US departments of chemistry, physics, and philosophy, the number of Israeli researchers is 10 to 13 percent higher than that of senior researchers in parallel departments in Israel. The number of Israeli faculty members is 21% of their number in Israel, 23% in economics departments, and 43% in business administration. "Some of the leading business departments in the US have a double number of Israeli faculty members," writes Ben-David.
The brain drain has been preoccupied with the relevant elements in Israel for a long time, and in recent years efforts have been made to stop it or at least to return some of those leaving. But these efforts have not been successful, and the phenomenon is only expanding. In the past, the government has tried to implement special programs for the return of outstanding Israeli researchers from abroad, and has invested hundreds of millions of shekels in setting up centers of excellence within the universities that were supposed to attract leading Israeli researchers on preferential terms, And decided to focus on a significant increase in research budgets, which should also attract foreign researchers back to Israel.
A global survey conducted by DeNetwork - a global alliance of more than 50 leading recruitment sites, including the Jobs portal in Israel and the global consulting firm Boston Scientific, has dealt with trends in high-tech work. In the survey, 27,000 people were interviewed in 180 countries with expertise and skills such as Internet programming and development, mobile application development, artificial intelligence, robotics and engineering. 80% have an academic degree, and 68% are men.
Contrary to popular opinion, the survey found that respondents prefer to work in a large company, rather than a start-up. Only 9% of them are in senior management positions and 41% of them are in positions without managerial responsibility. Popular destinations in addition to the US are Germany, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, with London being the world's leading city for those willing to move, followed by New York, Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona.
This phenomenon leads to an increase in the shortage of land. The developers receive packages of one kind or another, which make them relocate abroad, which increases the shortage in the country, and those who deal with the phenomenon today are not the government, but companies like Matrix or Extreme, which operate conversion programs.
The institution that holds the highest degree of degree recipients living and working abroad is the Weizmann Institute, with 20%, followed by the Technion with 11%, and the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University with 9% -8% each.

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