Special Aliyah Flight to Bring 200 French Jews to Israel

More than 200 immigrants from France ware scheduled to land in Israel aboard a special Aliyah flight next Monday evening.

They will be greeted by Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Ze'ev Elkin and Jewish Agency chairman Israel Natan Sharansky.

The number of 3,000 immigrants from France this summer is expected to reach 3,000, compared with 7,086 for all of 2014.