USA Today is reporting that “As attacks rise in France, Jews flock to Israel”. I guess it’s working for them then! Maybe it will work here too! (Said in disgust and dismay, lest there be any doubt.)
Anti-Semitism cited as prime reason for move
JERUSALEM — Barbara and Moshe Journo left Lyons, France, with their 1-year-old daughter, Lital, four months ago to move into a cramped apartment at the Beit Canada Absorption Center here. They have no jobs, little money and despite intensive Hebrew immersion remain more inclined to answer yes with a oui than a ken.
But like thousands of other French Jews who have moved to Israel in the past four years, they are glad to be here. Back in France, they say, rising anti-Semitic attacks by Muslim immigrants and the anti-Israel bias of the French government and media had made life increasingly uncomfortable for them.
“We want our daughter to grow up in Israel and not France, (where) it’s dangerous because of the Arabs,” says Barbara, 28. Asked if suicide bombings here by Palestinian terrorists aren’t even more dangerous, she shakes her head. “Israel is ours,” she says. “We feel here that God helps us.”
Last week, Jews from 23 countries were living at the new immigrant complex in southern Jerusalem. But only the French — usually a third of the families who spend six months here adjusting to their new country — cite anti-Semitism as a prime motivator for emigrating, known here as “making Aliyah,” or “going up.”
“It’s there in the air” of France, says Ahuva Volk, the center’s cultural coordinator. “They all felt it at one time or another.”
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