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[h=1]15,000 Jews to leave France for Israel, Jewish Agency says[/h][h=2]Jewish emigration body says numbers arriving from France could soar after recent deadly attack and rising anti-Semitism[/h]
A record 15,000 French Jews could emigrate to Israel this year amid fears of rising anti-Semitism in Europe, according to the official body overseeing migration to the Jewish state.
The figure double the number who left France for Israel last year has been forecast by Natan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency, following last Friday's deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris by a French jihadist, which left four Jewish citizens dead.
The attack prompted an appeal to French Jews by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who told them they would be made welcome if they wished to move to Israel.
Jewish Agency statistics projected that the number of French Jews preparing to make aliyah (emigration) to Israel was on course to reach record levels of around 10,000 even before last week's attack.
Some 7,000 French immigrants arrived in Israel in 2014, more than twice the 3,300 who came the previous year and an increase attributed to increasing levels of hostility Jews in France say they encounter. A stagnant French economy has been put forth as an additional factor.
The number of Jews leaving France for Israel has climbed steeply since 2012, when four people were killed in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse by another Islamist extremist.
A Jewish Agency spokesman said Mr Sharansky's prediction made in an interview with the Jerusalem Post was a "preliminary and not a definitive estimate".
It was born out by a dramatic leap in the number of calls from French Jews inquiring about emigration since last week's attack, the spokesman added.
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[SUP]Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, visits the kosher store where four people were killed in Paris (AFP)[/SUP]
"By lunchtime today (Monday), we received 600 inquiries when on a normal Monday we would expect only 400 for the entire day. Maybe not all of those people will emigrate but we are on course for a big increase," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ave-France-for-Israel-Jewish-Agency-says.html
A record 15,000 French Jews could emigrate to Israel this year amid fears of rising anti-Semitism in Europe, according to the official body overseeing migration to the Jewish state.
The figure double the number who left France for Israel last year has been forecast by Natan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency, following last Friday's deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris by a French jihadist, which left four Jewish citizens dead.
The attack prompted an appeal to French Jews by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who told them they would be made welcome if they wished to move to Israel.
Jewish Agency statistics projected that the number of French Jews preparing to make aliyah (emigration) to Israel was on course to reach record levels of around 10,000 even before last week's attack.
Some 7,000 French immigrants arrived in Israel in 2014, more than twice the 3,300 who came the previous year and an increase attributed to increasing levels of hostility Jews in France say they encounter. A stagnant French economy has been put forth as an additional factor.
The number of Jews leaving France for Israel has climbed steeply since 2012, when four people were killed in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse by another Islamist extremist.
A Jewish Agency spokesman said Mr Sharansky's prediction made in an interview with the Jerusalem Post was a "preliminary and not a definitive estimate".
It was born out by a dramatic leap in the number of calls from French Jews inquiring about emigration since last week's attack, the spokesman added.
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[SUP]Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, visits the kosher store where four people were killed in Paris (AFP)[/SUP]
"By lunchtime today (Monday), we received 600 inquiries when on a normal Monday we would expect only 400 for the entire day. Maybe not all of those people will emigrate but we are on course for a big increase," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ave-France-for-Israel-Jewish-Agency-says.html
