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American Jewish Emigration to Israel Rises
(Daily Telegraph - UK) - American Jews are emigrating to Israel in larger numbers, spurred by a growth in anti-Semitism and a belief that they might as well face terrorism in their ancestral homeland as in the United States. Last year 1,378 American Jews emigrated to Israel, while this year almost 1,800 have arrived so far. The new arrivals are mostly young professionals, and many said the events surrounding September 11 triggered their move. A recent planeload with 400 new arrivals from America and Canada was supported by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, with which U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other leading American figures are associated.