PM Netanyahu and Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Minister Landver Issue
Statement to the French Jewish Community in Israel in Wake of the Cabinet
Decision to Lift Impediments to the Absorption of New Immigrants in the
Labor Market
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption
Minister Sofa Landver, today (Sunday, 23 November 2014), issued a statement
to members of the French Jewish community in Israel in wake of the Cabinet's
decision to lift impediments to the absorption of new immigrants in the
labor market.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said:

"Israel is the Jewish home, the national state of the Jewish People. We want
to see masses of Jews coming here, of course this is everyone's personal
decision, but I think that anyone who looks at the world today understands
that there is one national home for every Jew.

I appeal especially to the Jews of France; this is a community that I know,
love and appreciate. We see you today not only as brothers and sisters but
as our very flesh. And then the simple question arises: If this is true, why
don't we make moving home easier? Why don't we allow Jewish professionals,
and they have a splendid community in France, the talents and charms of
which I have learned to recognize, who can make a tangible contribution to
Israeli society, to the Israeli economy, and to Israeli security, to do so?

As a first step, we decided today that by January 1 we will demand that all
Government ministries simplify, cut and shorten procedures so as to allow us
a range of professions, degrees and diplomas, and to allow French Jews to
immigrate to Israel and begin standing on their own feet and earn livings
that befit their talents, experience and professions? I think that this is
essential; it is essential to other communities too, we are doing this as
well. This should have been done decades ago but we are doing it now. I
think that this is very important and I reiterate and say one thing: This is
your home, this is your state. This is a personal decision but I want you to
know that we await you with open arms and we want to roll out the red carpet
so that you can come and join in building up our country and in ensuring the
future of our people here in our land."
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