Around 268,000 Israelis left the country over the past three years, in a wave of departures that reached record levels since 2023, according to Israeli media on Monday, Anadolu reports.

The daily Yedioth Ahronoth said a new study by researchers from Tel Aviv University showed that the migration wave that began in 2023 reached record and worrying levels last year.

According to the study, 86,509 Israelis left the country for three consecutive months or more in 2023, followed by 91,499 in 2024 and 90,922 in 2025.

The figures represent record levels compared with previous years. Between 2013 and 2015, the number of long-term departures stood at around 183,219, the newspaper said.

The study found that nearly 270,000 Israelis left the country between 2023 and 2025, averaging around 90,000 people annually, compared with about 60,000 per year between 2010 and 2019.