Immigration into Israel and the Palestinian West Bank is surging after the financial crisis and economic downturn evaporated jobs elsewhere.
After years of a brain drain from the region, and despite the lack of a peace settlement, by the end of this month about 4,000 North American Jews will have immigrated to Israel this year, an increase of 33% over 2008 and the most in one year since 1973, according to Nefesh B'Nefesh, an organization that oversees and assists with immigration to Israel from North America.
via online.wsj.com
PardonMyFrench - As bizarre as this sounds (really reads), Sarah Palin wasn't wrong about Jews migrating to Israel in greater numbers. Some people fed into the notion of her as a religious zealot and while perhaps she is, Palin clearly was accurate about more Jews flocking to Israel.
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