(Ha'aretz) Mickael Bensadoun and Dafna Aviram-Nitzan - From 2013 to 2015, Israel added more than 16,000 French Jews. In 2014, about half of French immigrants were 34 or younger, and about half had higher education with at least 16 years of schooling in fields such as medicine, engineering and finance. A recent survey conducted for the French president by the research institute IFOP estimates the potential French aliya at 200,000 at least, most of whom would be young. The survey found that at least 43% of French Jews were seriously considering emigrating to Israel, mainly based on the insecurity they feel in France today. Among those aged 24 to 34, the number was 64%.
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