Welcoming new olim at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 2024. Credit: Courtesy Nefesh of B'Nefesh.
Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, 22,000 people have immigrated to Israel, according to figures from the Jewish Agency and Israel’s Aliya and Integration Ministry.
Of these, nearly 1,800 are from North America and 800 from France.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, there has been an increase of over 500% in interest in immigration from France alone, with nearly 6,500 people opening case files compared to just over 1,000 in the same period the previous year, according to the figures.
A massive wave of French Jewish immigration is expected in the wake of the July 7 French election, which saw the far-left antisemitic France Unbowed party and its New Popular Front alliance garner the most seats in a hung parliament.
Two thousand North Americans are expected to immigrate to Israel this summer, while there have been more than 10,000 requests to open aliyah files in North America, a 76% increase from the same period a year earlier.
Source: JNS
