[golergka]

Do you have a source for that? I couldn't google up anything. Majority of israelis don't come from Europe, so I doubt this would work now. It seems probable that new olim mizrahim didn't yet make it to the high ranks yet, but I really doubt that it would work among low-ranked officers and soldiers.

[foobar2020]

I admit, it looks like it's quite hard to find many sources for this information. To the point I started to doubt it. I was basing on this article (in Polish), translation:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...

[golergka]

Thanks! I wonder what was the original source for that, thiugh. A lot of individual yiddish words made it into hebrew and israeli culture; I presume a lot of them have polish origins. May be that lead arab countries to believe that israelis were speaking polish?

[lgieron]

> Majority of israelis don't come from Europe, so I doubt this would work now.

Do you have any sources on that? I was under the impression that they actually do.

Edit: I've found some stats. According to wikipedia, 61% of Israeli Jews came from Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah