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French Jewish immigrants flock to Israeli coastal city

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 29, 2015, a French immigrant to Israel receives her Israeli ID during a ceremony in the costal city of Netanya...

Coastal "Israeli Riviera" as well as the city of Netanya market and the main pedestrian walk along the streets, one would be hard to tell apart from the excellent twin cities. Barely a Hebrew word, and real estate advertising, restaurant and cafe in the discussion list is mostly speak French.

France, which has the world's third-largest Jewish population in anti-Semitic attacks by Muslim extremists growth, an unprecedented wave of immigration to Israel has generated. Netanya, on the edge of the sea with elegant French-speaking community, and founded, and became the first destination.

For the first time, and last year, France, the Jewish Agency, working closely with the government and serve as a link for Jews all over the world, according to a non-profit group, was the top source of immigrants to Israel. French Jews were recorded in 7200 from the previous year, has doubled in 2014. Of these, nearly 2,000 Netanya, Moroccan, Algerian or Tunisian origin, which remind many of the new arrivals from the beaches of the Mediterranean come to the city.

More than 1 per cent of the Jewish population in a Western country and emigrated in one year, and the shooting of the Jews killed in the January Super authentic Paris market for the first time in the history of Israel, which came even before the boom, and the destruction of communities and the already fragile sense of security.

Fannie Rhoum, supra, which was a turning point Cacher, where the attack occurred supermarket, children went to school on the other side of that 33-year-old mother of two. Three days after the attack, and he came to Israel to start planning his move.

"I've become paranoid ... to bring the event closer to our departure," he said Wednesday on the resort received an Israeli identity card, the one from Paris with 200 immigrants arrived just two days after a private plane.



A mural on the Costa Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in this photo of a woman pushing stroller ...

"Here you get the feeling that we can protect ourselves. We have the impression that our own, and, God forbid, if something happens, we need to control."

The 63-year-old owner, Janet, sitting around and waiting for his retirement to move to Israel, now hopes to join his children and his grandson said. "It has no place to raise children Jewish," France said. "We. Netanya like a lot, we feel at home here."

Her husband, Chaim, and ahead of a small black skullcap wearing clearly shows - he performed in public places in Paris, said fear.

Experts say it was the murder of six million Jews while the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews in Europe since World War II, to say that these threats do not think. Jews in Belgium, Denmark and other European countries were targeted, but France has seen the worst of it. Most of the growing persecution of Jews by Muslim extremists and intimidation, have been reported. Israeli policies toward the Palestinians in attacks associated with some anger, but it was anti-Semitic in nature.

The French Jewish community of 500,000 the largest in Europe. Jews make up less than 1% of the population, but French officials said that racist attacks against them in 2014, more than 50 percent of all direct reports.



Wednesday, July 29, 2015 took this picture of a woman running down the center of the coastal city of Netanya ISR ...

Kandil Ariel, the Jewish Agency for Migration French director, said many immigrants come to Israel and the Zionist enterprise or economic reasons. The unemployment rate is less than 5% in Israel, compared to France since 2009 has ranged from about 10 per cent.

Historically, the number of annual migration from 1000 to 2000, he hovered three children and a rabbi were killed in Toulouse, in 2012 shooting attack against a Jewish school after the start of the Exodus.

"After that, I just could not stay there anymore," Aida Mardoukh, Toulouse moved to Netanya to the 45-year-old mother of three-year-old said. "Israel has in the attack as well, but at least we can live as Jews in this house."

Super Kosher Supermarket in January after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to Paris, and publicly urged the country to move to Israel. The Jewish Agency's 2015 already 10 per cent from last year, the number of standard reports that can be seen all at once.

European Jewish immigration to Israel is divided on the issue. Israel, and urged community leaders while maintaining a close relationship with the people to stay in their home countries.



Wednesday, July 29, 2015 took this picture of the northeast, sit in a cafe in the Israeli coastal city of ...

The trend of high-ranking officials and the mass Republic warned that a failure to consider the defendant with the Jews, also for the French government is very worrying.

Its prevalence in the history of the Jews of France in 2000 itself prides. The Jews were the first country in Europe to offer full civil rights, in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789, he was the co-Jewish minister, and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Jewish ancestry.

As well as the style, culture and food in the French sense - that the history of Israel, the arrival of French immigrants brought with them.

It is also true that the resort was no longer any place on the screen, affectionately, French "bubble" known as. Entire neighborhoods in the central and busy parks are French-speaking, residents of the regular cafe, bustling with smoking, drinking coffee and croissants to eat. Jewelry shops and fine sandy beach beckons as background brioches, and operation of the French song.

"They are close to the sea and their families want to be around," Kandil, explained the Jewish Agency.



Wednesday, July 29, 2015 took this picture of the northeast, sit in a cafe in the Israeli coastal city of ...

The project, Netanya's main Saeed French consumption Freddo Pachter, the city is well aware of their specific needs, not fully accepted. For starters, but most of the French, to say nothing, and accordingly revised in the city, and the French launch of a website and ensure that the French-speaking schools and workplaces in order to help ease the transition.

Unlike previous waves of refugees, Pachter immigrants with strong Zionist ideology was mainly French-educated professionals.

"He must have known that, because Israel wants to invest in it and it is a long-term investment," he said. "They like the body of new blood."

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