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The Jewish Agency and Aliyah Ministry said that over 7,000 new Aliyah applications had been opened in France in 2024 compared to 1,200 the year prior.
As flights into Israel were canceled amid the threat of an Iranian attack, a special International Fellowship of Christians and Jews aliyah flight continued undaunted on Thursday, bringing over 150 French Jews to their new home in the Holy Land.One hundred and forty-eight men, women, and children, seven babies, and one small dog waited through the extra layers of security with all their belongings at Paris’s Charles De Gaulle airport.
The excitement was tangible as the immigrants finally settled into their El Al seats.
Major airlines like Lufthansa had canceled flights into the country over concerns that the Iranian regime would retaliate over the alleged Israeli operation in Tehran that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, but the French olim (new immigrants) were defiant of the intimidation of threats.The Maimon family said that they were not afraid of a potential Iranian attack. The Glick family of four said that it was better to come to Israel, Iranian threat and all, than to stay in France, where antisemitism had become normalized. The state of Israel would protect them.
Defiant of Iranian threat, over 150 French Jews immigrate to Israel
The Jewish Agency and Aliyah Ministry said that over 7,000 new Aliyah applications had been opened in France in 2024 compared to 1,200 the year prior.
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