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January 29, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/29/wsemit29.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/29/ixworld.html

French Anti-Semitism Drives More Jews to Settle in Israel

(Telegraph-UK) Philip Delves Broughton - Growing anti-Semitism in France has prompted a big rise in the number of French Jews emigrating to Israel. Figures released in Israel Wednesday showed that 2,380 moved last year and 2,556 the year before. In the 1990s only about 800 French Jews emigrated to Israel each year. Natan Sharansky, an Israeli minister, said on Sunday: "Last year the number of anti-Semitic incidents in France doubled and 47% of all anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe occurred there."

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