(Guardian-UK) Linda Grant - On the streets of Tel Aviv, French has now overtaken English as the most commonly heard foreign language, after Russian. "There are 600,000 Jews in France and four million Arabs. We are too small a population to live in France, we can't exist there any more. All the young people are leaving, some to Israel, some to America. We didn't imagine this problem 10 years ago," said Robert, a radiologist in the process of making the move from Paris.
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