Czech diaspora in Israel

Czechs in Israel

Gal Gadot Tzvi Ashkenazi Gerty Cori
Total population
(Czech-born residents 50,220 (2001 Census) 90,000 (2009 ONS estimate))
Regions with significant populations
Jerusalem, Gush Dan and either places from Israel, especially Kfar Masaryk
Languages
Yiddish, Czech, Hebrew, Czenglish
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Czech people • Other White

In the 1940s and 1950s, Jewish immigrants from Czechoslovakia—many of them survivors of The Holocaust—took part in founding no less than twenty communities in Israel, including

In addition, a considerable number of people of Czech and Slovak origin settled in existing Israeli towns and cities. Israeli people of Czech descent include:

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