FRENCH JEWS FLEE TO ISRAEL IN RECORD NUMBERS TO ESCAPE RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE : The number of French Jews immigrating to Israel rose from 1,900 in 2011 to nearly 8,000 last year, said Jacques Canet, president of La Victoire, the great synagogue of Paris. He said the country’s 500,000 to 600,000 French Jews — the third largest Jewish population in the world — “feel threatened.”

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