Shades of what started eighty years ago - from Yahoo/Agence France Presse:
Another 5,000 Jews quit France for Israel: agency
Another 5,000 French Jews emigrated to Israel last year, figures showed Monday, continuing a trend that has seen tens of thousands quit the country after a series of attacks targeting the community.
The Jewish Agency of Israel issued the update as France marked two years since attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices and on a Jewish supermarket in Paris, where four shoppers were shot dead.
Daniel Benhaim, who heads the Israeli-backed group in France, said that insecurity had been a "catalyst" for many Jews who were already thinking of leaving.
The 5,000 departures in 2016 add to the record 7,900 who left in 2015 and 7,231 in 2014. In total, 40,000 French Jews have emigrated since 2006, according to figures seen by AFP.
"The aliyah (the act of moving to Israel) of French Jews has been significant over the last decade," Benhaim told AFP.
The French Jewish community is the biggest in Europe and is thought to number around 500,000 people.
That is eight percent of the population - this is not a trivial number when you consider that these people are selling off everything and moving to a different nation. I can not imagine what it must be like living over there. This is the practical reaction to the One World Government types meddling in things they know nothing about. And of course, the un-elected pencil-pushers in Brussels have no personal accountability in this issue. Ve Vere Youst Following Orders mein herr...
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