In 2012 , some 200,000 French citizens lived in Israel . During the same year , following the election of François Hollande and the Jewish school shooting in Toulouse , as well as ongoing acts of anti-semitism and the European economic crisis , an increasing number of French Jews began buying property in Israel . In August 2012 , it was reported that anti-semitic attacks had risen by 40 % in the five months following the Toulouse shooting , and that many French Jews were seriously considering immigrating to Israel . In 2013 , 3,120 French Jews immigrated to Israel , marking a 63 % increase over the previous year . In the first two months of 2014 , French Jewish aliyah increased precipitously by 312 % with 854 French Jews making aliyah over the first two months . Immigration from France throughout 2014 has been attributed to several factors , of which includes increasing antisemitism , in which many Jews have been harassed and attacked by a fusillade of local thugs and gangs , a stagnant European economy and concomitant high youth unemployment rates
Jewish school shooting
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Aliyah