Israelis in China, as compared to other foreign communities, are not large in number.
[2] Shanghai's Israeli community may be the largest in mainland China.
Most notable among them is Sara Imas, a former Chinese citizen with a German Jewish father and Jiangsu mother, who was born and raised in China and later recognized by former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as the first Jewish immigrant from China to Israel.
Imas later returned to Shanghai as the representative of a diamond company after gaining Israeli citizenship and living in Israel for 12 years.
[5] The Israeli community in Hong Kong is larger than those of Beijing and Shanghai combined.