Is there a rush on to Israel??

tridean

Jedi Master
Hi All,
Someone I know in a forum recently spoke of trying to get a quote for shipping furniture to Europe, and have been told by several removal companies that they are extremely busy as there are a lot of people moving to Israel!!

With all this Osama stuff going on maybe...does anyone else know of such movement?
 
Tried to look for something about it, and didn't see any articles on the increase of "aliyah" beside this one. But there is something else rather interesting.

See the following article:

_http://www.yiddelenews.com/?p=9634

1,000 Evangelists Want to Convert, Make Aliyah to Samaria

MK Lia Shemtov (Israel is Our Home), who is involved in the initiative, told Arutz Sheva‘s Hebrew-language service that the Christians are all members of a single large community who decided to move to Israel, convert and serve in the IDF, after realizing that they feel a special bond to Israel.

Shemtov said that the group requires special treatment because it wishes to make Aliyah first, and then convert. Otherwise, it could have been absorbed simply based upon the Law of Return, which grants citizenship to all Jews, converted or Jewish-born.[...]

Asked whether the Christians’ request could be part of an unstated plan to change Israel from within, Shemtov said she thinks it is not. Most of the applicants come from evangelical families that support Israel in action and assist it financially, she said, but the group’s members have gone a step further in requesting giyur. In the past – so they told her – they believed that the Nation of Israel should be strengthened only so that one day it would accept Christianity. However, they now believe in the coming of the Messiah as it is predicted in Jewish tradition.

The group also faces criticism within the wider evangelical world and has therefore had to move into separate communities

On another site I read that rabbis are suspicious of the evangelicals and think they come here to convert Jews to Christianity. So I wonder if beside usuall effort of Jewish Agency to bring Jews to Israel, we may see Christians coming here because they think that the end of the world is coming. On the other hand, it is kind of illogical to come to a place that is about to go up in flames. Unless, of course they think that they will be spared, and Jesus will be ruling from Jerusalem.
 
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