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		TriinT on Aug 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy That does not surprise me, given that many Russians and Ukrainians moved to Israel after the fall of the USSR. But did those doctors start their lives in Israel as construction workers? Or did they start practicing Medicine right away?

ido on Sept 3, 2009 [–]

No, they had to pass some sort of exam in order to be able to practice in Israel (and also learn the language of course).

But a few years hence, the result is that a lot of Israeli doctors are former Soviet citizens.

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