AFP / Yahoo News: Israel hails highest [Jewish] immigration figures in a decade [The irony is so thick you could slice it with a knife and serve it up with lox, bagels and cream cheese. No doubt one factor must be the Muslim invasion of the West, due to the open-borders polices that Jewish communities were integral in achieving. Now Jews can escape to Israel, there being no such happy sanctuary for White Gentiles, by design. --tma]

Israel hails highest immigration figures in a decade

Jerusalem (AFP) - The number of Jews moving to Israel leapt in 2014 to its highest figure in a decade, with western Europe leading the way, the immigration ministry said Wednesday.

Immigration hit a 10-year high, with the arrival of some 26,500 new residents, according to a joint statement with the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental organisation tasked with encouraging Jews to move to Israel.

This marks a significant 32 percent increase over last year's approximately 20,000 immigrants, the statement said.

This "was a year of record-breaking aliyah," Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky said, using the Hebrew word for immigration to Israel.

It "also saw a historic shift: for the first time in Israel's history, the number of immigrants who came to Israel from the free world is greater than that of immigrants fleeing countries in distress."

For the first time ever, France provided the biggest number, as more than 6,600 Jews moved to Israel. That was nearly twice the 3,400 who arrived in 2013. ...

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