The Green household was taken over by piles of clothing, books, and kid’s toys this summer, as 40-year old Inbal Green and her husband Shlomy Green, 37, packed up their lives. Along with their dog, cat and four-year-old daughter Riley, the Israeli couple were leaving suburban life outside Tel Aviv and moving to Thailand. Since the war in Gaza began last October, they'd felt too unsafe to stay.
Shlomy opened a kitchen cabinet filled to the brim with stacks of canned goods, cereal and teabags.
“Now we have to sort through the entire house and decide only what we want to take with us,” he said. “That’s why the house is in complete shambles.”
The Greens, born and raised in Israel, are among a growing number of Jewish Israelis looking for jobs abroad and leaving since last Oct. 7. Israeli media reported figures from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics showing a spike in the number of Israelis — more than 12,000 — who left the country last October and had not returned by June.
The war in Gaza, which has killed over 41,000 Palestinians, according to health officials there, was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage.
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