Last week, I reported that France informed Israel that Prime Minister Sharon, whose office has been planning a visit to France, was not welcome in light of his call to French Jews to immigrate to Israel. SEE: France: Sharon unwelcome after call on Jews to immigrate. Earlier this week, I posted an article in which French Jews expressed strong agreement with Sharon. SEE: Sharon is right. Today, 200 French Jewish arrived in Israel after emigrating from France.
200 French Jewish olim arrive on special flight
Just 10 days after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon enraged French leaders by urging Frances Jews to leave for Israel, a group of 200 French Jews arrived to start a new life here, with Sharon at the airport to greet them. Emerging from the plane, happy immigrants danced and sang "Heveinu Shalom Aleichem." A heavyset man with a beard, dressed in a white shirt and skullcap, danced a solo jig, his arms above his head.
Carol Ben Guigui, 41, carried a little dog in herarms. "In five or 10 years, all the Jews of Francewill be in Israel because of anti-Semitism," she said. The group included 50 children and 55 university students, according to the Jewish Agency.
SEE ALSO: Fearful Jews Fleeing France
Just 10 days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon enraged French leaders by urging France's Jews to leave for Israel, a group of 200 French Jews arrived to start a new life in the Jewish state, with Sharon at the airport to greet them. As one émigré told CBS News Correspondent Mark Philips: You wear something to say you are Jewish and you have difficulty. We are afraid. It's simply that we are afraid."
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