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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two hundred French Jews arrived in Israel on a special aliyah flight. The flight organized by The Jewish Agency for Israel, the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, and Keren Hayesod-UIA arrived in Israel on Monday. Among the new immigrants to Israel were 74 children and teens. The youngest immigrant is two and a half months old and the oldest, 92, is making aliyah with his daughter and her husband. The immigrants were greeted by Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky, Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver, former Chief...

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Strasbourg Luc Ravel has called attention to the demographic shift in France saying Muslims are having far more children than native French and slammed the widespread “promotion” of abortion.The Archbishop of Strasbourg went against the grain of Church leaders in France who have largely remained politically correct on the issue of demographic changes occurring in the country. He said the rising birth rate of Muslims in France was leading to what prolific French writer Renaud Camus has termed “the Great Replacement”, French conservative magazine Valeurs Actuelles reports. “Muslim believers know very well that their birthrate...

Make no mistake, this is warfare. French reader Alexandre writes me, “French suburbs, new gaza tunnel ? Holes dug and camouflaged to trap police at night during pursuit races. Several testimonies and photographs have been received from the residents of the district of Trois Ponts in Roubaix. A group of young individuals dug holes 60 cm deep on average and covered them to camouflage them. Their goal ? Attract police officers in pursuit races at night to trap them. According to several consistent testimonies, these traps worthy of North American trappers contain sharp metal objects to injure police officers. Police...

France’s new environment minister said Monday nearly a third of the country’s reactors could be shut under plans to scale back the amount of electricity produced from nuclear power. In 2015, the previous Socialist-dominated parliament passed a law obliging the government to reduce the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear to 50 percent by 2025 compared with around 75 percent now. “We can all understand that to reach this target, we’re going to have to close a certain number of reactors,” Nicolas Hulot told RTL radio. “It will be perhaps as high as 17 reactors, but we need to look...

France’s finance minister urged his European counterparts Sunday to do more to chase down tax due from the European operations of US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook. Bruno Le Maire’s comments addressed an issue which has aroused fierce controversy: the complex tax arrangements of multinational corporations under fire for slashing European tax bills by shifting revenue across borders. “I have just come back from the G20 meeting in Hamburg, and I can tell you that the present age is not one for the weak,” Le Maire told an economic symposium in the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence....

Commuters on a new high-speed rail line in France got to race a Dassault Rafale fighter jet, which is pretty cool. I would like to snark how American it is of them, but America doesn’t really do high-speed rail. To celebrate a new line between Connerré and Cesson-Sévigné, the French rail service was joined by the French Air Force, with a Dassault Rafale fighter jet following along the new train, looking cool and giving commuters the impression that they were mere pawns in France’s multi-transport racing gambit. In the video from Puissance Française (French Power) on YouTube, you can also...

The French Prime Minister on Friday laid out a raft of measures aimed at boosting Paris's attractiveness to high finance in order to cash in on Britain's exit from the European Union, including cutting income tax for high earning bankers and opening international schools. France continues to make eyes at London's bankers and on Friday the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe laid out a raft of measures to attract financiers who may have to leave London when the UK leaves the EU.

Emmanuel Macron’s decision to invite Donald Trump to the annual Bastille Day celebrations in France on July 14th has been criticized at home, but the French president appears determined to prevent his US counterpart from isolating himself. New French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to serve as a bridge between Europe and Donald Trump, seeking to influence and understand the US president amid widespread confusion in Paris about his intentions. […] French government spokesman Christophe Castaner told the LCI channel on Thursday that the invitation to Trump was in honor of the United States, France’s ally and liberator in the...

France’s swashbuckling TV star turned environment minister Nicolas Hulot laid out France’s new “climate plan” intended to meet the ambitious targets of the Paris climate accord on Thursday and become carbon neutral by 2050. […] “We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040,” Hulot said, calling it a “veritable revolution”. “The solutions are there,” Hulot said. “Our own manufacturers have what they need to support this promise”, adding that it all contributed to the “public health agenda”. Acknowledging that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for automakers, Hulot said that France’s car...

Emmanuel Macron is a remarkable man. Beyond this simple statement, there is little else we can know for sure about him. This is because a complete enigma has won the French presidency and is now taking Europe by storm. Macron is such a new, unknown entity that until very recently there was not even a visible record of his political commitments.

In France, the land of liberty, equlity and fraternity, to say a bad word about Islam means a hefty fine and court appearance - and no one who dares to defend you. The controversy began with his intervention in September 2016 on the broadcast “C à vous”. Éric Zemmour was then immediately sued at the 17th Criminal Court of the Paris Court. He must respond to the alleged offense of “incitement to discrimination and hatred against people of Muslim faith”. The lawsuit is promoted by the EuroPalestine Association. Zemmour is in trouble for a few sentences, such as the ones...

There are abundant lessons in India for the Australians negotiating the huge and complex $50 billion contract for the navy’s 12 new submarines. The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) yard in Mumbai is halfway through a program to build six conventionally-powered Scorpene-class submarines in collaboration with the French shipbuilder Naval Group, which has just changed its name from DCNS. Against competition from Japan, Germany and, earlier on, Sweden, Naval Group won the contract to design and help build 12 very large Shortfin Barracuda submarines in Australia. The Shortfin is a conventionally-powered version of another Naval Group class, the nuclear-powered Barracuda...

This is a story that needs to go viral and that needs to be covered by every conservative and patriotic new outlet in America and Europe. It concerns what everyone is calling a Day of The Jackal style plot to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron of France on Bastille day in front of President Trump. The Day Of The Jackal, (The original book and movie not the remake with Bruce Willis which is crap) Is about the attempted assassination of then president Charles De Gaulle by Army radicals after De Gaulle  declared independence for Algeria. In truth such a plot did...

French President Emmanuel Macron has taken part in a nuclear missile launch simulation after being winched down to a navy submarine in the Atlantic. The 39-year-old signalled his commitment to France's nuclear deterrent with a day-long visit to weapons facilities on the Ile Longue base off the Brittany coast. During the visit France's youngest ever president spent four hours underwater aboard the nuclear submarine 'The Terrible' where he took part in a simulated rocket launch.

Life in France. This from a French reader: During the feast for the Muslim who signifies end of the Ramadan. In France all over the territory the French can see scenes of sheep slammed in the courts of buildings, on the balconies of the apartments. During this period the peasants are not surprised to see disappearances of their cattle of sheep, these sheep are often destined to the black market for the resale illegal This photo taken by a resident of a Marseillaise district shows well the scenes of horror and a lack of major hygiene. How can a civilized...

French president Emmanuel Macron has declared he will govern France like Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, shortly after officials told the media his thought process was “too complex” for journalists to understand.

France’s new president clearly has some healing to do when it comes to two long-standing divisive issues in France. Immigration and the place of Islam in society are still very much contentious questions for the French, a new annual survey has revealed. A poll by the Ipsos institute for Le Monde newspaper has revealed that a majority of 65 percent of French people say there are too many foreigners in France, a figure that has remained elevated in recent years, with the figure as high as 70 percent in 2017. Another stat demonstrating a majority of French people are uncomfortable...

French president Emmanuel Macron told a gathering of lawmakers on Monday that France was ready for a “radically new path” which would include “profound changes” including slashing the number of MPs and Senators by a third and ending the state of emergency. […] The Senate has 348 members, while the lower house National Assembly has 577 and Macron warned them he would call a referendum if they do not agree. Macron also said he planned to introduce a “dose of proportional representation” for the next parliamentary elections, “so that all tendencies are fairly represented (in parliament)”. That reform could enable...

Eight people were injured after two gunmen reportedly opened fire near a mosque in Avignon, France, on Sunday, local media are reporting. Muslim worshippers were leaving the Arrahma mosque and gathering in the street around 10:30 p.m. local time when the men, one of whom had exited a car, began opening fire, according to regional French newspaper La Provence. The men carried a rifle and a handgun, according to the newspaper. Four people were injured at the scene, and four others in a nearby apartment were wounded from flying shrapnel. One of the victims included a 7-year-old girl, La Provence...

Prosecuting sources in Paris said the man was from the ‘extreme-Right’ and wanted to murder President Emmanuel Macron, as well as ‘blacks, Arabs, Jews and homosexuals A far-right French nationalist was in custody in Paris today accused of planning to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron in front of his American counterpart Donald Trump. The alleged Day of the Jackal-style plot by the unnamed 23-year-old Frenchman was foiled when he tried to get hold of a Kalashnikov assault rifle online. Prosecuting sources in the French capital said the man was from the ‘extreme-Right’ and wanted to murder Mr Macron, as well as...