Immigration to Israel from France rose in 2005. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday that 27 percent more French Jews immigrated last year than in 2004. Political analysts attributed the phenomenon to fears of rising anti-Semitism in France, home to Western Europe’s largest Jewish population.
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