The leader of the Jews of Europe condemned the words of the Prime Minister of Israel
The head of the European Jewish Association Rabbi Menachem Margolin criticized the appeal of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu to French Jews to emigrate to Israel after the terrorist attack in Paris kosher store.
According to the Rabbi, the government of Israel makes such statements after each anti-Semitic attacks in the EU, instead, to provide security for the Jews.
" Each such campaign of Israel weakens and damages the Jewish community, have the right to live in security, wherever they are, " he said, Rabbi.
" The reality is that the overwhelming majority of European Jews do not intend to emigrate to Israel, " said Margolin.
according to him, the Association asked the Ministry of internal Affairs of the EU to approve the issuance of permits to carry guns to the heads of the Jewish communities, as well as shopkeepers. Margolin also said that " it seems that the European Diaspora Jews is not the main priority for Israel."
Netanyahu asked after a series of terrorist acts in France to the local Jewish community, reminding her about the possibility of moving to their historical homeland and promising package additional incentives through the government.
Terrorists, according to one version associated with radical Islamist circles, was shot twelve in the Paris edition of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, and on the last working day of the week captured in the store kosher food nearly two dozen hostages, most of them Jews, killing 4 of them.
He promised that in the coming days specialized interdepartmental Committee will meet to develop additional measures in support of immigration from France and other European countries, suffering, According to Netanyahu, " the terrible anti-Semitism ". On Sunday, the Prime Minister showed Israel at the Paris March in memory of the victims of terrorist acts.
in the past year Jewish immigration reached a 10-year maximum: continuous residence in Israel moved 26, 5 thousand people. For the first time in the history of the number left is the leader in France, whence he emigrated almost 7 thousand Jews - two times more than in 2013. On the 2nd place - Ukraine, where Jewish emigration in one year increased by 190% and reached 5 840 thousand people demonstrate preliminary data of the Ministry of immigration and the Jewish Agency " Sokhnut ".
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