FRENCH JEWS FLEE TO ISRAEL IN RECORD NUMBERS TO ESCAPE RISING
ANTI SEMITISM IN EUROPE
Published on May 30, 2016
France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, estimated at 500,000 to 600,000 people, and a growing number of them have effectively become internal refugees. People like Alain Benhamou, who decided to move from his home of 40 years after his second break-in, are fleeing insecurity and seeking protection in numbers in an atmosphere they say is increasingly hostile, and often expressed in relation to conflict in the Middle East.
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