More than 5,000 French Jews are expected to leave France for Israel due to the struggling economy and the rise of radical Islam and the far-right political party, Fox News reports.
The economic prospects for France coupled with an increase in anti-Semitism are the two driving forces for this mass emigration.
France has the world's third-largest Jewish population after Israel and the United States — about 500,000, according to rough estimates in a country that has outlawed any official documentation of a person's religion since the Holocaust.
Since World War II, France has redoubled efforts to make Jewish families feel welcome. But many say dramatic acts of anti-Semitism coupled with France's stagnant economy — which includes a 25 percent youth unemployment rate, compared with 11 percent in Israel — make a hard choice easier.