MORE ON JEWS LEAVING FRANCE FOR ISRAEL

For Some French Emigrants, Israel Really Is the Promised Land - Matt Rees (TIME)
Paul Zerah, 46, brought his wife and two youngsters to Israel from Paris two weeks ago. "I was afraid for my children there," he says. In July alone, 800 French Jews immigrated, and an Israeli university study recently predicted 30,000 will eventually make the switch. See also

Fed Up in France: Are Anti-Semitic Attacks Triggering a New Exodus? - James Graff (TIME)
Disturbed by the increasing pace of attacks against Jews and their property in France, Alain Elbeze, 52, has resolved to move with his wife and five children to Israel. "Look at this," he says, gesturing at the barriers erected in front of his synagogue in Paris. "I didn't have to grow up with this, and I don't want my kids to have to." Today many feel under siege from the country's 6 million-strong Muslim population.