Wednesday 18 December 2013

French Aliyah

In an overcrowded conference room in the heart of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, a hundred French Jews are losing their patience.
They have gathered at the Paris office of the Jewish Agency for Israel for a lecture on immigrating to Israel, but the agency staff is running behind. Its 20 staffers are coping with a 57 percent jump in the number of French Jews moving to Israel over the last year and a surge of applications. In addition to four weekly public talks, they are struggling to finish 30 applicant interviews each day.
Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/surge-in-anti-semitic-attacks-drives-record-levels-of-french-aliyah/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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