'Immigrants to Israel feel deceived'

Russian Jews who have immigrated to Israel as part of a project by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli regime say they have found the promises given to them empty.

"In Russia, they kept on promising. The treatment was excellent. They wanted us to immigrate and become part of the successful statistics. Now, no one cares," Igor Rotman, a Russian immigrant, told Ynet.

Based on the report, many immigrants believe they were used by the Jewish Agency and the Absorption Ministry to provide authorities with successful statistics.

The Israeli website added the Russian families who were convinced to immigrate to Israel now complain about offensive attitudes and indifference.

"The Jewish Agency says that they are no longer responsible for us, and the Absorption Ministry claims that they are not responsible for what was promised by the Jewish Agency," Rotman added.

The Jewish Agency had promised the would-be immigrants that they would acquire residence on a kibbutz in the north, as well as higher education, and school for their children.

They were also told that they would be provided with help with their career and academic orientation.

The website said when the Russian families immigrated to Israel, they were told that the government had run out of money to fund the projects that would grant them with advantages.

The Absorption Ministry evaded to give them an answer and told the families it knew nothing about the Agency's promises.

"The conditions for participating in the 'Community Aliyah' program are being under the age of 45 and that one of the spouses hold an academic degree," said Rotman.

"Among other things, we were promised a translation of our degrees into Israeli degrees so that we could start a professional career here or continue in academia. They organized us a bus to Haifa so that we could do this at the Education Ministry, but an hour before the ride from kibbutz, the trip was canceled."

"They brought us here and simply forgot about us. The systems are not coordinated (with one another) and do not work in cooperation."

Israel has seen a wave of negative immigration in recent years with many Jews, mostly young ones, losing faith to the regime as a 'promised heaven'.