Anti-Semitic attitudes in the UK are a leading factor in encouraging aliya [emigration] for British Jews, according to many of those who recently arrived here. On Wednesday, 140 Britons, 140 Canadians and 240 Americans arrived as new immigrants in Israel [1]. Several Jews coming from the UK said the terror threat hadn't dissuaded them from traveling and that other recent developments, notably the response in Britain to Israel [1]'s actions against Hizbullah, had increased their desire to leave. "I believe there is no future for Jews outside Israel [1]," said Yossi Vardakis, 19 while on route from London to Israel [1] where he plans to study rather than face hostility at a British university.  "You don't feel really welcomed being Jewish [in England].  You're attacked for supporting Israel [1] . . . You see this hatred coming out" ("Jerusalem Post," 8/17/06).
 
[TBC: God continues to gather Israel [1].]