It was a Friday. Four Jews had just been dead in the Hyper Cacher, a adequate bazaar in Paris, two canicule afterwards the Charlie Hebdo attack. One of them was Krief's friend.
"I was not good, absolutely not good," Krief says of how he acquainted at the time. "I talked to my mom, and I said, 'We accept to go to Israel. We charge to go to Israel.'"
Krief absitively to leave France afterwards a acquaintance was dead in a alarm attack.
Krief absitively to leave France afterwards a acquaintance was dead in a alarm attack.
Krief, a French Jew who had just accomplished top school, confused to Israel with his ancestors six months later, as allotment of the bigger clearing of Jews from Western Europe to Israel back the avant-garde accompaniment of Israel was created.
Nearly 8,000 French Jews confused to Israel in the year afterward the Charlie Hebdo attack, according to the Jewish Agency, which handles Jewish immigration, or aliyah, to Israel.
The amount of French Jews affective to Israel has angled -- and angled afresh -- in the accomplished 5 years.
In 2013, beneath than 3,300 French Jews confused to Israel. Only two years earlier, that amount stood at 1,900.
Britain has the second-highest Jewish abandonment from Western Europe, but the calibration is abundant smaller. According to the Jewish Agency, 774 British Jews confused to Israel in 2015, beneath than one-tenth the amount of French Jews.
'Difficult to reside as a Jew in France'
Many French Jews achieve in Ashdod, a city-limits in southern Israel accepted for its ample French population.
You are as acceptable to apprehend French on the streets as you are Hebrew, abnormally in one of the city's abounding French cafés.
"It's abundant for me here, abundant bigger than France," says Charly Dahan, a artist who confused to Israel from Paris two years ago.
Au revoir and shalom: Jews leave France in almanac numbers
By Oren Liebermann
Updated 1717 GMT (0117 HKT) January 23, 2016
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Ashdod, Israel (CNN)Yoav Krief remembers the day he knew it was time to move to Israel: January 9, 2015.
It was a Friday. Four Jews had just been dead in the Hyper Cacher, a adequate bazaar in Paris, two canicule afterwards the Charlie Hebdo attack. One of them was Krief's friend.
"I was not good, absolutely not good," Krief says of how he acquainted at the time. "I talked to my mom, and I said, 'We accept to go to Israel. We charge to go to Israel.'"
Krief absitively to leave France afterwards a acquaintance was dead in a alarm attack.
Krief absitively to leave France afterwards a acquaintance was dead in a alarm attack.
Krief, a French Jew who had just accomplished top school, confused to Israel with his ancestors six months later, as allotment of the bigger clearing of Jews from Western Europe to Israel back the avant-garde accompaniment of Israel was created.
Nearly 8,000 French Jews confused to Israel in the year afterward the Charlie Hebdo attack, according to the Jewish Agency, which handles Jewish immigration, or aliyah, to Israel.
The amount of French Jews affective to Israel has angled -- and angled afresh -- in the accomplished 5 years.
In 2013, beneath than 3,300 French Jews confused to Israel. Only two years earlier, that amount stood at 1,900.
Britain has the second-highest Jewish abandonment from Western Europe, but the calibration is abundant smaller. According to the Jewish Agency, 774 British Jews confused to Israel in 2015, beneath than one-tenth the amount of French Jews.
'Difficult to reside as a Jew in France'
Many French Jews achieve in Ashdod, a city-limits in southern Israel accepted for its ample French population.
You are as acceptable to apprehend French on the streets as you are Hebrew, abnormally in one of the city's abounding French cafés.
"It's abundant for me here, abundant bigger than France," says Charly Dahan, a artist who confused to Israel from Paris two years ago.
Dahan sits in Café Lyon, a accepted affair atom for French Jews.
"This is the aboriginal time in my activity that I am relaxed. In France, I aswell acquainted good, but the bearings and the accepted problems... it's actual difficult to reside as a Jew in France," he adds.
The Jewish Agency says abandon is allotment -- but not all -- of the acumen for French immigration.
"While high-profile attacks such as those at the Jewish academy in Toulouse in 2012, the Jewish building in Brussels in 2014, and the adequate bazaar in Paris and the abbey in Copenhagen endure year accept absolutely been the a lot of active instances of abandon targeting French and European Jews, the French Jewish association has been active with a abysmal faculty of crisis for absolutely some time," says Avi Mayer, agent for the Jewish Agency.
Israel's Jewish leaders accept consistently proclaimed that the country will consistently action a home to Jews from anywhere in the world.
But what of the places these newcomers accept larboard behind?
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls afresh bidding the abhorrence that an departure of Jews would change the country for the worse.
"Without the Jews, France is no best France. It's the oldest community. They accept been French citizens back the French revolution," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Fear of getting apparent as Jewish
But if the European Union advised the prevalence of anti-Semitism in 2013, it begin that 74% of Jews in France abstain aboveboard anecdotic themselves as Jewish at atomic some of the time, and added than a division of French Jews consistently do.
Dov Cohen, a French Jew who larboard Marseille for Ashdod endure summer, says he never wore his religious skullcap, or kippa, in public.
"You accept to watch out," Cohen says about his activity in France. "You accept to assure the accouchement because of fights in the busline and on the buses. This pushed us to adjudge to accomplish aliyah," he says.
"Here there is a activity of aegis that no best exists in France. Twenty years ago, maybe yes. But back the year 2000, there no best is that activity of aegis in France."
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