“I know Jews in parts of France are leaving and setting up households in Israel.”
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they are less and less numerous to leave for Israel ; unemployment rates 10%, so it was/is still difficult for those who tried the experience to find a job, even with the prime and the fiscal adventages, it can’t fit what they expected ; 3/4 of them return.
Though some elders like the sunshine at Tel Aviv where they bought/buy an apartment for their retirement. Idem the french Jews that go to America, essentially to Florida, go there to make businesses and to invest in apartments and buildings since the euro rates higher than the dollar, and more since the prices lowered there.
Most of the population, that is usely labelled as jewish in France, is secular, so they don’t feel the necessity to make their alya. It is generally a well integrated population that doesn’t feel different than any other provincial french ethnies. I’m from Brittany, our history of integration to the Kingdom and to the republic of France has been of discriminations. It’s only after WW2, in the early seventies that we were considered as an equivalent province of france.
Now saying that there isn’t a problem of antisemitism resurgence would be veiling our face, but it was/is volontary exagerated by some foreign médias and persons, that are not endorsed by the largest part of our so called “jewish population”. Lots of our intellectual “Jews” belong to the “lefty Bobo” elite, they are our fist university strikers too.
