And the jobs they create with their purchasing power, and with the new businesses which they start up, are at least as numerous as the jobs which immigrants fill. There is every reason to believe that the analysis applies to Israel, too. Labor unions fiercely resist this research conclusion, though they harm their own long-run interests if they succeed in reducing immigration. But this conclusion is as solid as such a scientific finding can be. Immigrants do not exploit others by over-using welfare services.
Immigrants typically arrive when they are young and healthy.
And immigrant families pay more taxes than do average native families, because more of them are working. Therefore, immigrants into Israel as well as North America and Australia surely contribute more to the public coffers in taxes than they draw out in welfare services. Some veteran Israelis complain about the economic assistance that the Russians receive. Furthermore, funds from outside of Israel have more than covered housing and other absorption expenditures. The absorption expenditures do not come from Israeli taxpayers' pockets.