Head of Jewish Agency: Talk of Iran strike slowing Aliyah to Israel

[azurnoir]

Fearing imminent war with Iran has prompted Jews from around the world to delay their planned immigration to Israel, says Jewish Agency-World Zionist Organization chairman Natan Sharansky.

In a Sunday morning interview with Army Radio, Sharansky said there had been “incidents of would-be immigrants canceling their plans after all the details had been finalized. One of them told me: 'We will come after the Middle East has had its nuclear war.'”

Despite the negative effect of war talk on immigration, one of the Jewish Agency/WZO's principal objectives, Sharansky expressed support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for making it clear that “if the world won't attack, Israel would.” Sharansky, who served as a minister in 1990s governments headed by both Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, the current defense minister, said that the “constant chatter [about a possible Israeli attack on Iran] is making Jews everywhere panic. It is also weakening the government's deterrence.”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/head-of-jewish-agency-talk-of-iran-strike-slowing-aliyah-to-israel.premium-1.459242

[oberliner]

1. Only seeing first paragraph at the link

You said you did not pay for premium, so what is your trick for getting the whole article?

[azurnoir]

2. register that's what I did

you don't have to pay for that, I think you get it free for a month or two

[oberliner]

3. Done and done

Although i really wish they had stuck to the earlier model.