Posted on 05/26/2024 1:48:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Between Jan. 1 and May 15 this year, Israel welcomed 11,631 new immigrants, with approximately 8,000 – nearly 70% – originating from Russia, according to an interim report by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration.
This new data was presented during Monday's meeting of the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs.
Immigration from North America and Western Europe is expected to number 15,500 people, more than 2.5 times the number that arrived in 2023, attributed mostly to the steep rise in antisemitism since the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre. So far this year, a mere 700 new immigrants arrived in Israel from Western Europe with the majority coming from France, followed by the United Kingdom. Even fewer (564) Jews made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) from America during that time.
The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), the government organization that handles immigration to Israel, expects another 8,000 new immigrants to arrive in Israel from the West by this September, according to Israeli officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at allisrael.com ...
as with Germany in the 1930’s American Jews believe they’re living in one of the world’s most advanced and thus civilized countries and that it ‘can’t happen here.”
unfortunately, an “advanced” country is not necessarily a safe country (Germany led the world, or nearly so, in science, technology, art, music, most culture... and USA has led the world or at least been one of the major contributors to most of these things since then).. indeed, it was much of the intelligentsia including a great deal of the university set that led or gave major support to the Nazi movement....just as we are witnessing today in USA)
Sorry, Jewish people but...”it can’t happen here” is an Ostrich Syndrome. Not reality.
I’m really surprised that 2024 would be an uptick of immigrants to Israel
I thought that the first thing inability of the Israeli government to take care of gaza permanently would drive many to leave Israel
I still think many will leave Israel.
The only people I see immigrating to Israel are the French and English due to the antisemitism
Hmmm... might have something to do with the Russia/Ukranian war?
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