83% of Israelis age 60 and over were born in other countries and immigrated to Israel at different stages in their lives. Israel's elderly population comprises a wide variety of cultural groups differing in their norms and traditions, educational levels, and demographic structures. The current study used national Israeli survey data to examine differences due to immigration status and ethnicity in the utilization of formal and informal supports in later-life. The association of population group and receipt of formal or informal help by older people in Israel has been examined to a limited degree so far. And yet, a multivariate analysis enables to combine various significant data as regards a spatial level (native country) as well as a timescale (date of immigration): this analysis revealed that new immigrants, all of whom emigrated from the former Soviet Union at an advanced age, and former immigrants from Asia or Africa received more informal aid than the former immigrants from Europe. Native-born Arab-Israelis received more informal support than former European immigrants, but native-born Jewish Israelis received less. Native Israeli Jews and former immigrants were similar on formal service utilization measures. However, new immigrants made less use of health services and greater use of social services. Arab-Israelis made less use of health services, particularly formal home care provided by a personal aide, despite greater reported ADL disability and comorbidity. © La Documentation française. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

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