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Sharansky: 50,000 French Jews Inquired about Aliya in 2014
(Jerusalem Post) Sam Sokol and Herb Keinon - Some 50,000 French Jews asked the Jewish Agency for information about immigrating to Israel in 2014, agency chairman Natan Sharansky said Monday. "They have a choice, to stay in France, where there is the biggest welfare basket ever," to travel to other EU nations, or to immigrate to Montreal, where there are few cultural adjustments to make and which was until recently their primary destination, he said. "The overwhelming majority" of Jewish emigres from France, possibly up to 70%, choose to go to Israel. "For the first time...there is a massive exodus from a community in the free world, which has all the doors open to them, and they are choosing Israel."