Among the published “Epstein files” was an excerpt from a conversation with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. In it, he argues for bringing a million Russians into the country—an influx that, he said, could “change Israel forever”.
Barak claimed that such immigration could “break the monopoly of the Orthodox rabbinate”. To that end, he proposed “opening the gates” to mass conversion to Judaism “without setting preliminary conditions at the outset”—in context, above all by dropping the requirement of Jewish ancestry, banking instead on later social pressure and assimilation, especially in the second generation.
He also says he discussed the possible arrival of Russians in Israel with Vladimir Putin. Barak separately stresses that he was particularly interested in the immigration of “beautiful girls”.