This article considers both Arab and Jewish emigration from Israel to the US relying on the 5% Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 1980 US census. Using the ancestry and language questions to identify Jews and Arabs, we found that over 30% of Israeli-born Americans are Palestinian-Arab natives of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. Both groups have relatively high socioeconomic characteristics. Both have high rates of self-employment, particularly the Palestinian-Arabs, who appear to serve as middlemen minority in the grocery store business in the cities where they reside. The fact that nearly a third of Israeli-born immigrants are Arabs accounts for the occupational diversity previously observed of Israelis in America but does not account for their income diversity as much as does differences beteen early and recent immigrants. -from Authors

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