"My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not want you to leave," Valls said. "I regret Benjamin Netanyahu's calling for the "massive immigration" of European Jews to Israel. The place for French Jews is France."
Netanyahu issued his call during the weekly meeting of his Cabinet, which approved a previously scheduled $46 million plan to encourage Jewish immigration from France, Belgium and Ukraine — countries where large numbers of Jews have expressed interest in moving to Israel.