Business
Ashkenazi Jews' salaries continue to eclipse Sephardic figures
Natalie Groisman
Published: 29.01.14, 13:13
Comment Comment
Print comment Print comment
Back to article
22 Talkbacks for this article
1. Knowledge is power
Anon ,   Israel   (01.29.14)
2. False comparison with Arabs
Shalom ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (01.29.14)
Just as Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews are distinguished, so also Christian and Muslim Arabs should be distinguished. Previous statistical surveys have shown that Christian Arabs have educational and professional standards on a level with Jews.
3. It's all about divide and conquer.
Rich ,   Toronto, Canada   (01.29.14)
Keep the people below fighting each other like animals, while the financial criminals at the top are laughing all the way to the bank.
4. Salaries depend on qualification....
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (01.29.14)
not on origin of birth Statistics can prove anything but the truth.
5. All over the world
Zechariah   (01.29.14)
All over the world this is the trend .Its called enticement to succeed by Money Power.How big is your house and how much are you worth.Its a reality .But a moderate counter backlash may occur from the Religious and secular left that a hard worker deserves better pay .
6. True in America as Well
jake ,   haifa Israel   (01.29.14)
Ashkenazi Jews in the United States earn far more than non-Jews in the US, and the discrepancy is greater than the one indicated here.
7. Love your friend as you love yourself
Yechiel   (01.29.14)
Your friend Mashiach
8. My sephardi relatives well off
avi ,   nyc   (01.30.14)
and are well educated. Perhaps the author should know the difference between Sephardi and Mizrachi
9. # 4
Ori, ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (01.30.14)
And thats why the haredim are where they are.
10. ashkenazi-sefaradi incomes
Richard E Sherwin   (01.30.14)
query: how much of this report covers undeclared/untaxed incomes? or even 'factors them in'? my artisan (ashkenazi & sefaradi) buddies in miluim used to laugh at my monthly salary as a university teacher; they made more in a week... and this was 1970... what's changed?
11. 9 Last Jews in Israell will be Haredim...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (01.30.14)
thus they are very well were they are,thank you.
12. This numbers cant be mathematically correct
Tomi Weiss ,   Serbia   (01.31.14)
If Ashkenazi Jews earn 42% more than the average (40% of Israeli population) and Mizrahi Jews (40% of population) earn 9% more than the average, combined the Jewish population earn 24% more than the average. This means that in order to obtain average, the Arab population (20% of population) mathematically have to earn nothing, or even less to go in minus.
13. #12 Statistics don't tell everything
Harri ,   EU   (02.01.14)
Tomi, while Ashkenazi Jews are 40% of the population, they are not 40% of the workforce. Most of the Ashkenazis have other sources of income, like investments, and their children study longer etc. Arabs earn less, so their children have to stop studying and go to work earlier, and they don't usually have any other income sources. There is also many workers in Israel, who don't have citizenship, earn less than average, but still have impact on statistics, and they are not Jews. I don't have any better statistics, so it is only my wild guess, but perhaps Arabs do about 30%-40% of the work that is paid by salary in Israel. Correct me if I am wrong.
14. CEO salary
Storm Trooper ,   USA   (02.02.14)
Are you saying that a CEO in Israel earns a NY policeman salary? There has to be some major stock options.
15. #12, Don't be stranger...
AVouskila ,   South America   (02.02.14)
Wellcome to the Israel "special math" (in other word SM).. Rubic cube was immediatel 'decoded' in Israel before the chinese even took their own ancient Yogo Tablets (YT). Seriously, the same people that calculated the Decraphic Threat of Israel in the 90's, are the same group that now are telling you about the poor Arab, and unfairly rewarded Sephardic. (I am a Moroccan, so I have my good math)
16. it shows only that ashkenazim wants to keep their monopol
samy ,   ashdod,paris   (02.02.14)
we can see such thing only in israel come to france or canada where sephardic jews received a high level education the gap desn't exist ! i can explain why this gap exist in israel ,when you bring a population (the sephardic) jews to israel without the political willingness to give them an education more than that there were political motivations to let those people under ignorance to be the slaves of the upper class
17. with equal chances in education this gap would never exist
samy ,   ashdod,paris   (02.02.14)
18. #16. Bravo, you got it
AVouskila ,   South America   (02.02.14)
They have been doing it since the Levy Yulee of Florida (the First Jewish Senator was the son of a Moroccan Jew. 1855-60....) and the Ashkenazi Establishment don't even mention him. Tough luck though: There is the Yulee County and Levystown......you guessed it, named after the Senator David Levy Yulee (he liked to be called as a revolt for his orthodox Moroccan Jew Mosh yulee Levy.
19. 18 i heard about him
samy ,   paris;france   (02.03.14)
in israel everything have been done to favorize the establishment that was already present the ashkenazim and let the other under their control believe me those sephardic who didn"t establish in israel from 1948 to 1975 succeded very well in diaspora
20. Abortionist femi-shmendrick alert
Jhan   (02.04.14)
People who install electric systems on chicken runs make less money than doctors and lawyers - this is a surprise? This is a newsworthy item? Please already....
21. May be true, but wrong line of thinking
Valter ,   Sao Paulo, Brasil   (02.05.14)
Using this simple-minded methodology, sepharadi Jews in Brazil earn hundreds of times more than ashkenazim. Just to mention 2 examples, the Safra brothers (bankers) and Silvio Santos (TV mogul). Their combined income is greater than the GDP of several countries.
22. Jews
DrYechezekel ,   Sacramento   (02.05.14)
Jews control the world
Back to article