The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Strengthening of Ukrainian Identity among Former Soviet Union Immigrants from Ukraine: Israel as a Case Study

This research draws on data from an online questionnaire distributed through social networks in July 2022, while the Russian-Ukrainian war was ongoing. One of the main avenues for data collection was the Facebook forum "Russian women without a sense of humor and their friends." This forum was founded in 2014 by social activist and journalist Lena Russovsky, who had immigrated to Israel from Moscow at the age of nine. The group became very popular among Gen 1.5 Israelis, mostly women who immigrated from the FSU, and today numbers 40,000 members (Prashizky, 2020).

The collected data were examined in accordance with the demographic and socio-economic characteristics set by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. The sample was determined to be representative exclusively of educated women who were born in Ukraine and are between the ages of 25 and 60. Therefore, it was decided to focus on this group of people.