{"id":5221,"date":"2014-09-12T20:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2014-09-11T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:24:51","slug":"5221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=5221","title":{"rendered":"France now leading source of immigration to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/haaretz1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-world-news\/1.614489\" target=\"_blank\">France now leading source of immigration to Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.614493.1410074815!\/image\/339349457.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_640\/339349457.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"French olim at Ben-Gurion Airport\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.614493.1410074815!\/image\/339349457.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_640\/339349457.jpg\" alt=\"French olim at Ben-Gurion Airport\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Jewish immigrants at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 16, 2014. Photo by Ofer Vaknin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Over 4,500 French Jews have moved to Israel in 2014, marking a 25-year high. Officials say anti-Semitism, weak economy are behind rise.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">By: JTA and Haaretz<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">France for the first time since the founding of Israel is the leading source of immigration to the Jewish State, the Jewish Agency for Israel announced Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Some 4,566 French immigrants arrived in Israel from January through August 31, surpassing Russia, with 2,632 immigrants, and Ukraine, with 3,252 immigrants. The figure represents a 25-year high for immigration to Israel from France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cFrance is today the leading country for Jewish emigration to Israel. It has never been before,\u201d said Ariel Kandel, the Jewish Agency&#8217;s emissary in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Jewish Agency is the quasi-governmental agency responsible for organizing Jewish immigration to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201dWe will get close to 6,000 departures from France in 2014,\u201d said Kandel. He attributed the rise to a \u201cclimate of anti-Semitism that is losing its taboo\u201d as well as economic difficulties in France, which is suffering from zero growth and record high unemployment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The United States, whose Jewish population is more than 10 times that of France, has sent 2,218 new immigrants to Israel so far this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The figures were published on September 1 by Israel\u2019s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption. The number of French immigrants in 2014 is the highest on record since 1989 and already has surpassed last year\u2019s record-breaking number of 3,263 French newcomers. In 2004, another banner year for French aliyah, there were 2,948 French immigrants to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Between 1989 and 2013, an average of 1,943 French immigrants arrived in Israel per year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read more <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-world-news\/1.614489\" target=\"_blank\">France&#8230;.immigration to Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France now leading source of immigration to Israel Over 4,500 French Jews have moved to Israel in 2014, marking a 25-year high. Officials say anti-Semitism, weak economy are behind rise. 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