Immigration to Israel hits 10-year high with record French influx

[Solomon2]

Immigration to Israel hits 10-year high with record French influx

France tops aliyah chart for first time with 7,000 newcomers; Ukrainian numbers triple as civil war rages

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF December 31, 2014, 3:51 pm

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French Jewish children before their immigration to Israel participate in a farewell event in Paris along with Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver, July 2014. (Photo credit: Erez Lichtfeld)

Jewish immigration to Israel hit a ten-year high in 2014, with over 26,500 people making aliyah over the course of the year, the Jewish Agency said Wednesday.

According to statistics released by the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Ministry, Israel saw a 32% rise in immigration compared to 2013, and the highest immigration rate since 2002, when 33,539 made aliyah.

For the first time since the founding of the state, France topped the list of countries from which immigrants moved to Israel this year, with over a quarter — about 7,000 people — making the leap. It was the largest single-year movement of French Jews to Israel since the founding of the state. Half that many moved to Israel in 2013.

“We expect that some 10,000 new immigrants will come from France alone next year, and we will surpass 30,000 immigrants from around the world – and even more,” Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver said in a statement.

Immigration from Ukraine nearly tripled from 2013 to 2014, rising from 2,020 to 5,840 in 2014 as civil war gripped the country.

“The Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption are meeting the challenge posed by the situation on the ground by expanding operations in Ukraine and offering immigrants special financial assistance,” the Jewish Agency said in a statement.

According to Central Bureau of Statistics data, emigration rates are also declining. The figures released in recent months suggest that Israelis are much less inclined to permanently leave the country than they were 10 or 20 years ago, with 2012, the last year for which figures on long-term emigration are available, showing the lowest emigration rates since the founding of the state in 1948.

 

[VCheng]

Even then, the long term demographic changes overall remain unfavorable to the Juice.

 

[Serpentine]

Hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to a place that doesn't originally belong to them to establish a 'Jewish state' and when it's said that Israel has stolen land, they say: Look, all these Jews have lived here for thousands of years. Ironically, Jews were a minority in Palestine in British mandate of Palestine.

Reminds me of Hitler's living space (Lebensraum) policy.

Lebensraum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'

Lebensraum (German for "habitat" or literally "living space") was an ideology proposing an aggressive expansion of Germany and the German people. Developed under German Empire, it became part of German goals during the First World War and was later adopted as an important component of Nazi ideology in Germany. The Nazis supported territorial expansionism to gain Lebensraum as being a law of nature for all healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races to displace people of inferior races.

Führer would be proud of Israel indeed.

 

[Skywalker]

Signs of a dooms day...as all the Jews will be gathered at the same place.

 

[Azizam]

Hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to a place that doesn't originally belong to them to establish a 'Jewish state' and when it's said that Israel has stolen land, they say: Look, all these Jews have lived here for thousands of years. Ironically, Jews were a minority in Palestine in British mandate of Palestine.

Reminds me of Hitler's living space (Lebensraum) policy.

Lebensraum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'



Führer would be proud of Israel indeed.

The same Palestinians that are blowing up in market places in Syria/Iraq? Same ones that are so excited about ISIS? Hamas that backstabbed you as soon as the Syrian revolution started? Still giving *** aren't you?

Recently I saw some satellite pictures of you guys that show the Swastika and star of david with a cross carved out in university grounds and public spaces.

At least Israel is the only place in Middle East where minorities and women are treated as humans. It's also one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

 

[Pakistani E]

More European settlers moving to the land of milk and honey. Reminds me of the rush to the New World by the puritans of Europe. Well, more settlers mean more land to colonise, unfortunately this will lead to more conflict with the natives. No end to cycle of violence anytime soon then.

 

[Norwegian]

Hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to a place that doesn't originally belong to them to establish a 'Jewish state' and when it's said that Israel has stolen land, they say: Look, all these Jews have lived here for thousands of years.

O'really? How come Arab people who were largely confined to Arabian peninsula during pre-Islamic era suddenly moved all our the Middle East and actually STAYED there until today. Palestinian Arabs are not the only people who have faced injustices and war. Deal with what their forefathers planted centuries ago!
@Derolo @Archdemon @Natan @500 @MarkovChain @Solomon2 @F-15I

Ironically, Jews were a minority in Palestine in British mandate of Palestine.

So? Arabs were almost non-existent in North Africa, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Iran until Islam came along. If Arab migration is OK for you to places they have never been before, so should be Jewish immigration.

Reminds me of Hitler's living space (Lebensraum) policy.

It was forceful extension (annexation) of already German majority regions. Nothing to do with Israeli Aliyah policy.

Signs of a dooms day...as all the Jews will be gathered at the same place.

Not possible. 6 million out of 14 million world Jewry still lives in USA!

More European settlers moving to the land of milk and honey. Reminds me of the rush to the New World by the puritans of Europe. Well, more settlers mean more land to colonise, unfortunately this will lead to more conflict with the natives. No end to cycle of violence anytime soon then.

Sounds like mass Muslim immigration to Western countries to me

 

[500]

Hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to a place that doesn't originally belong to them to establish a 'Jewish state' and when it's said that Israel has stolen land, they say: Look, all these Jews have lived here for thousands of years. Ironically, Jews were a minority in Palestine in British mandate of Palestine.

Reminds me of Hitler's living space (Lebensraum) policy.

Lebensraum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'

Führer would be proud of Israel indeed.

Hundreds of millions people migrate through history, including your ancestors who came from Volga region and settled in lands of Elamites and your beloved Arabs who came from Arabia and settled all over Middle East. And the entire human kind came out of Africa.

But out of all these hundreds of millions you have a problem only with Jews and make idiotic comparison to Nazis.

More European settlers moving to the land of milk and honey.

Actually the overwhelming majority of French Jews are Morocco Algeria and Tunisia migrants.

 

[Imran Khan]

Can pakistanis move to israel? i am ready today to shift

 

[cougar]

Hundreds of millions people migrate through history, including your ancestors who came from Volga region and settled in lands of Elamites and your beloved Arabs who came from Arabia and settled all over Middle East. And the entire human kind came out of Africa.

But out of all these hundreds of millions you have a problem only with Jews and make idiotic comparison to Nazis.

These are not idiotic comparisons! They are a nation of gangsters/land grabbers/murderers/thieves. Modern day Israel is founded on sheer oppression for which there is no example in history

 

[Falcon29]

The same Palestinians that are blowing up in market places in Syria/Iraq? Same ones that are so excited about ISIS? Hamas that backstabbed you as soon as the Syrian revolution started? Still giving *** aren't you?

Recently I saw some satellite pictures of you guys that show the Swastika and star of david with a cross carved out in university grounds and public spaces.

At least Israel is the only place in Middle East where minorities and women are treated as humans. It's also one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

What a pathetic, pointless, gibberish post by a Muslim hating bigot. Thanked by another two bigots who wish to skin Muslims alive. You are worst representative for Sri Lankans I have ever seen. I doubt other Sri Lankans behave in this manner that you do. You advertise yourself as cheap slave. Jews can get you on your knees to do the deed. You are dirty dog.

 

[Azizam]

What a pathetic, pointless, gibberish post by a Muslim hating bigot. Thanked by another two bigots who wish to skin Muslims alive. You are worst representative for Sri Lankans I have ever seen. I doubt other Sri Lankans behave in this manner that you do. You advertise yourself as cheap slave. Jews can get you on your knees to do the deed. You are dirty dog.

I don't represent Sri Lanka here. Actually I don't represent anything here or in real life. I am a free spirit.

What's irony here is that few months ago you were cheerleading for ISIS and talking about beheading Shias. Oh, and also said something nice about the mom of an Iranian member here.

 

[Falcon29]

I don't represent Sri Lanka here. Actually I don't represent anything here or in real life. I am a free spirit.

What's irony here is that few months ago you were cheerleading for ISIS and talking about beheading Shias. Oh, and also said something nice about the mom of an Iranian member here.

Iranians don't care about a dog like you. Regularly inciting between Muslim members. And quarrel with @rmi5 was already settled. And we are closer than ever. And he realize you were bigot when he had debate with immature person like you.

You think you scare me you foolish dog.

I already expected that your post would consist of this giberrish.

Don't you have parties to attend with that one celebrity?

 

[Azizam]

Iranians don't care about a dog like you. Regularly inciting between Muslim members. And quarrel with @rmi5 was already settled. And we are closer than ever. And he realize you were bigot when he had debate with immature person like you.

You think you scare me you foolish dog.

I already expected that your post would consist of this giberrish.

Don't you have parties to attend with that one celebrity?

More insults please.

I don't care about what they care. I just pointed out some simple fact. Are you going to deny what you did few months ago?

I am on the way to fireworks. Just having some fun with you while in tube.

 

[Falcon29]

More insults please.

I don't care about what they care. I just pointed out some simple fact. Are you going to deny what you did few months ago?

I am on the way to fireworks. Just having some fun with you while in tube.

Wow man you are too cool for us. Going to see firework show. Kiss my *** while you're at it.