Two Planes of French Jews Immigrate to Israel
Two planeloads of immigrants from France arrived in Israel Monday, marking the largest French immigration to Israel in decades. The 330 new immigrants arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on two flights, from Paris and Mareseille, which arrived simultaenously. The mass Aliyah (immigration to Israel) was organized by the Jewish Agency and AMI, a voluntary organization set up by French Jews to provide assistance for immigrants from France, modeled after the Nefesh b’Nefesh Aliyah assistance organization which assists immigrants from North America. AMI grants financial aid to those who need to pay back loans or move their businesses to Israel, as well as stipends for students making Aliyah. Four Torah scrolls were also brought to Israel together with the new immigrants, signifying a continually increasing flow of France’s Jewish community toward the Jewish homeland. “France still has a Jewish population of about 600,000, but Aliyah continues to increase and we hope all of French Jewry will come home soon,” Bingham said, summing up the sentiments of those who addressed the new immigrants upon arrival.
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Actually the French has just released a report saying that anti-semitic incidents are dramatically (about 50%) down in comparison with the last year.
nouille: here:
http://www.boursier.com/vals/all/feed.asp?id=3809
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20050725.FAP1400.html?1203
irene: more likely because the French started kicking the foreign mullahs who preach antisemitism out of France.
pd111: Jews are always the canary in the coal mine, aren't they? Yes, this is a harbinger of much worse things to come. I think we'll win. Europe won't become Islamic in the end, at least not most of it. But it may become very deeply damaged by this.
Perhaps Europe's post-colonial and post-Holocaust guilt complex will be washed away with the blood of millions of Europeans.
Who knows how many Jews have left Israel for France during the same time?
pd111: if it makes you feel any better (I know this is not much of a consolation) this Jew has actually moved to Europe (from the US) 11 years ago and is here to stay.
I really do believe that Europe is stronger than ummah.
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