en 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
	Ashkenazi Jews; Slovak Jews; Czech people;

The Czechs in Israel are people who have immigrated from the Czech lands, mostly from the former Czechoslovakia, as well as their descendants. Czechs in Israel are predominantly Ashkenazi Jews who made aliyah during the 20th century.

History

In 1968, Israel relaxed immigration for refugees from Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Interfaith families and couples were granted the same rights and responsibilities as other immigrants.^[1]

The Czech-Israeli journalist Ruth Bondy has written a book exploring the lives of Czech-born Jews in Israel. Bondy has written that Czech Jews in Israel have developed a reputation for being "square" and law-abiding.^[2]

In the 1940s and 1950s, Jewish immigrants from Czechoslovakia, many of them survivors of The Holocaust, took part in founding twenty communities in Israel.

Notable people

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: