Menu JTA Search  600 French Jews make aliyah    More than 600
French citizens made aliyah Wednesday. The two flights, from
Paris and Marseilles, were organized by the Jewish Agency for
Israel and AMI, which promotes and supports aliyah from France.
Most of the olim were families, and their most popular
destinations were Netanya, Ashdod and Jerusalem. A few young
students moved to Tel Aviv, and a smattering of families moved
to Eilat and Akko.      The flight from Paris included Moise and
Louise Bettan, a 96-year-old man married to a 91-year-old woman,
who made aliyah in their wheelchairs. The couple is moving to
Netanya.     Gilles Taieb, president of AMI, noted that the
flights were timed to coincide with Tisha B’Av. “Jews were
kicked out of ancient Jerusalem, then were kicked out of Spain
by the Inquisition, which also came on Tisha B’Av. Many of them
left Spain and moved to North Africa,” he said. “Those Jews left
to North Africa and moved to France and now, 2,000 years later,
are moving back to Israel