Defiant of Iranian Threat, Over 150 French Jews Make Aliyah

Stand for Israel  |  August 2, 2024

With worries over rising and unchecked anti-Semitism across the globe, many Jewish people are choosing to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel) even amid rising tensions and threats of a direct attack from Iran.

In fact, The Fellowship just welcomed a flight of over 150 French olim (immigrants) to Israel, escaping the troubling anti-Semitism in France. The Jerusalem Post tells us more:

As flights into Israel were canceled amid the threat of an Iranian attack, a special International Fellowship of Christians and Jews aliyah flight continued undaunted on Thursday, bringing over 150 French Jews to their new home in the Holy Land…

Major airlines like Lufthansa had canceled flights into the country over concerns that the Iranian regime would retaliate over the alleged Israeli operation in Tehran that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, but the French olim (new immigrants) were defiant of the intimidation of threats.The Maimon family said that they were not afraid of a potential Iranian attack. The Glick family of four said that it was better to come to Israel, Iranian threat and all, than to stay in France, where antisemitism had become normalized. The state of Israel would protect them.