Aliyah from Britain has dropped over the last two years, according to the latest figures from the Jewish Agency.
Compared with 772 Anglo-Jewish emigrants to Israel in 2015 — a rise of around 25 per cent on the previous year — the number fell to 694 in 2016 and 544 last year.
No great surge seems likely this year, with a total of 371 recorded for the first eight months of 2018.
The UK figures parallel those for Western Europe as a whole. In 2015, 9,937 made aliyah — including more than 7,300 from France in the year of the terrorist attacks in Paris. But there was a notable drop from Western Europe to 6,508 the following year and further in 2017 to 4,939. So far from January to August this year, 2,693 Jews have made aliyah from Western Europe.
