Off Topic: Israel to announce plan for drawing more French Jews
Israel to announce plan for drawing more French Jews | The Times of Israel.
( The next great Alia… Post-war Europe, Arab countries, Russia, Ethiopia and now France. Each place drove our people out. To their benefit and to ours… Welcome, brothers….
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” – JW )
French diplomas for some medical, tax fields to be recognized in first step; potential to attract 42,000 by 2017, says Ministry of Public Diplomacy
December 27, 2013, 2:32 pm
A Boeing 747 El Al plane (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
Israel is set to announce a three-year plan aimed at attracting more French Jews to settle in the Jewish state.
The first move will consist of recognizing French diplomas for medical professionals and tax consultants, an official from Israel’s Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs told the Maariv daily this week. The government has decided in principle to increase funding for facilitating the arrival of new immigrants from France, said the official, who was not named.
“The government has realized this is a historic window of opportunity,” said the official.
More than 3,000 French Jews will have moved to Israel by year’s end, an annual tally reached only four times in the past, most recently in 2005.
The causes for the surge are said to be the community’s deep attachment to Israel, rising anti-Semitism and the financial crisis gripping French economy.
Currently, Israel does not recognize a host of French diplomas, including those of optometrists, opticians, physiotherapists and tax consultants.
“This is a stumbling block to aliyah,” Ariel Kandel, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s chief of operations in France, told JTA earlier this month. “As it stands now, I need to advise people in those professions not to come.”
In addition to recognizing more diplomas from France, the ministry plans to offer special assistance for French Jews with job placement, housing and education needs for children, Maariv reported.
Many French Jews who want to emigrate choose Britain, Canada or the United States over Israel, according to the ministry, which estimates that Israel has the potential of attracting 42,000 French Jewish immigrants by 2017.
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For investors devastated by the crash of 2008 and still unable to embrace a rising stock market, every sparrow looks like a black swan. “Where and when is the next shoe going to drop? Just how much risk can I survive? How do I protect my downside?” they ask.
There is another risk investors might soon have to confront. It is a risk that’s not often discussed, even in the closing days of 2013 with the Dow and the S&P 500 hitting new highs. It is a risk for which few are prepared.
What if our economic recovery is more than a sugar high? What if there is more here than insanely stimulative monetary policy from the Federal Reserve? What if the U.S. has already begun to steer an economic course to a period of unprecedented and genuine prosperity, achievement, and problem-solving? What if all of this is accompanied by a stock market that in 10 years will make today’s stock prices seem like amazing bargains?
Changing Times
Eight factors could point the U.S. in the right direction:
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Sensible Immigration Reform: We can encourage our most enterprising and hardworking people to become citizens. We don’t have to chase them away from working in our economy.
Repatriation of Corporate Income: $2 trillion earned offshore by American corporations remains offshore to avoid ill-conceived American corporate taxes. If a company domiciled in Germany makes money in Argentina and wants to invest it in the U.S., we welcome it. Instead of taxing it, one of our states may give the foreign company a tax holiday. But if a company domiciled in the U.S. does the same thing, we double-tax the daylights out of it. It would be hard to imagine a more counterproductive tax policy. It generates little to no revenue and deprives the American economy of $2 trillion. There are a number of movements afoot to bring that money home.
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Changing Politics and History
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