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"Sarkozy Effect": A Decline in French Aliyah
R. Waxman 04/08/2009 22:00
Yediot Aharonot quoted a Jewish Agency Official in France as saying that the numbers of French Jews immigrating to Israel may be on the decline. The good relations that President Nicolas Sarkozy has with French Jews may have played a part in the fact that only 2800 immigrants arrived this year in Israel, as opposed to the predicted 3000.