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Iranian Jews blast offer of cash for immigrating to Israel
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

An Iranian Jewish organization announced over the weekend that it rejected an initiative to compel Iran's Jewish community to immigrate to Israel using cash incentives.

"[The money is]inappropriate and politically immature," the group said in a statement that was carried by Western and Iranian news outlets.

It added Iran's Jewish community has remained loyal to the Islamic Republic and that their "Jewish Iranian identity is not a commodity that passes from the hands of one merchant to another in return for money."
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The statment addressed an offer by expatriate Iranian Jews offering a sum of $10,000 to each individual to immigrate to Israel.

The $10,000 offer doubled the existing $5,000 allocated each Jewish Iranian upon arrival to Israel by the Ministry of Absorption and the Jewish Agency.

Iran's Jewish community has decreased from 80,000 before the Islamic revolution, to about 20,000 today.

It is represented in parliament by a Jewish lawmaker and is the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside of Israel.
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  1.   More on the same subject` 20:57  |  Hannah 14/07/07
  2.   Iranian jews are as old as history of Iran 21:01  |  kia 14/07/07
  3.   Iran Jews slam cash incentives encouraging Iran emigration 21:07  |  martin list, m.d. 14/07/07
  4.   Whos Speaking for the Iranian Jews? 21:13  |  Yoav 14/07/07
  5.   I thought Iran didn`t allow Jews to worship freely 21:18  |  Italian 14/07/07
  6.   THEY`RE TRYING TO GET THEM OUT OF THE WAY B4 THE WAR TO SAVE SOME 21:18  |  David P 14/07/07
  7.   `1" Hannah 21:22  |  Labhras 14/07/07
  8.   To the Italian (#5) 21:33  |  Vitaly 14/07/07
  9.   Somebody just got spanked 21:37  |  Natallie Durson 14/07/07
  10.   Expats blast offer 21:49  |  Garry 14/07/07
  11.   truth about iran 21:54  |  israel 14/07/07
  12.   they need to get out asap ! 22:05  |  alan 14/07/07
  13.   to #5 22:13  |  Truthmonger 14/07/07
  14.   Hannah LOL 22:23  |  Danite 14/07/07
  15.   #6 to david p 22:27  |  Michael 14/07/07
  16.   Italian # 5 22:28  |  ChanahS 14/07/07
  17.   Iranian Jews and Iranian Politics 22:31  |  Labhras 14/07/07
  18.   # 7 Labarse Why are you such a liar? 22:31  |  ChanahS 14/07/07
  19.   4: Yoav 22:32  |  Redivider 14/07/07
  20.   if iran hates jews. 22:34  |  wendy 14/07/07
  21.   Natallie Durson # 9 22:34  |  ChanahS 14/07/07
  22.   5: Italian 22:35  |  Redivider 14/07/07
  23.   6: David P. 22:39  |  Redivider 14/07/07
  24.   "10" Garry 22:41  |  Labhras 14/07/07
  25.   10: 22:44  |  Redivider 14/07/07
  26.   Expelled from Arab lands 22:44  |  Michael H. 14/07/07
  27.   survival 22:46  |  Ronit 14/07/07
  28.   HANNAH AND LABHRAS 22:56  |  Brant 14/07/07
  29.   Michael H - might help if your comments made sense 22:59  |  Not the mad Hannah 14/07/07
  30.   The Italian 22:59  |  ottomatik 14/07/07
  31.   This confirms what many iranians have told me and what I have 23:21  |  lakshmi 14/07/07
  32.   To Labhras and Redivider 23:29  |  Garry 14/07/07
  33.   yoav 4 23:30  |  get serious 14/07/07
  34.   #5 Italian, Anti Zionizsm vs Antisemitism 23:31  |  Haham me Bat yam 14/07/07
  35.   Redivider 23:39  |  ChanahS 14/07/07
  36.   "28" Brant 23:51  |  Labhras 14/07/07
  37.   Level of Coersion 00:03  |  Ron 15/07/07
  38.   Lakshmi? where did u meet those iranians 00:12  |  Anubhav 15/07/07
  39.   Expat protests correct, lure for money counterproductive 00:14  |  Ivar 15/07/07
  40.   to Michael 00:18  |  Anubhav 15/07/07
  41.   LABHRAS 36 00:26  |  Brant 15/07/07
  42.   "30" ottomatik 00:27  |  Labhras 15/07/07
  43.   It is expat Iranian Jews making the cash offer, not Israel 00:48  |  Jake 15/07/07
  44.   Hannah 00:50  |  Jane 15/07/07
  45.   Anti-zionism 00:53  |  Rob 15/07/07
  46.   iranian Jews blast offer. 00:58  |  masood 15/07/07
  47.   The 60 000 (80% of community) decided by a large majority 01:06  |  Alain 15/07/07
  48.   Capitalism and Labor camp 01:06  |  Mansour 15/07/07
  49.   `43" Jake 01:13  |  Labhras 15/07/07
  50.   Iranian Jews 01:14  |  Koorosh 15/07/07
  51.   Iranian Jews are prosperous 01:17  |  fantasi_unicorn 15/07/07
  52.   26Michael H a warning about the fake poster (40) Anubhav, 01:18  |  lakshmi 15/07/07
  53.   Great 01:39  |  jay 15/07/07
  54.   Dear highrollers! 01:40  |  Joe 15/07/07
  55.   $10,000? How about $1,000,000 01:46  |  Fish 15/07/07
  56.   Being bribed to sell their souls to the Devil. 01:48  |  Maureen Ann 15/07/07
  57.   Nonetheless, the Iranian Jewish community is extant. 02:02  |  Don Camillo 15/07/07
  58.   #1 Hannah 02:02  |  Jim 15/07/07
  59.   Diverting from the issue, #3 02:03  |  MA 15/07/07
  60.   #5 the "Italian" 02:05  |  Jake 15/07/07
  61.   # 3 martin list, m.d. 02:06  |  Jim 15/07/07
  62.   #26 Michael H on Jews from "Arab Lands" 02:11  |  Martin 15/07/07
  63.   ayatollah executed 30-40,000 iranians without trial 02:12  |  topanaga 15/07/07
  64.   Zionists are morraly bankrupt. 02:14  |  Gentile 15/07/07
  65.   Genocide 02:24  |  Willie 15/07/07
  66.   Bathurst 02:25  |  Fish 15/07/07
  67.   Jews living in Iran 02:28  |  Bob Lang 15/07/07
  68.   Israel have Law of return and incentives to Jews , Arabs don`t 02:30  |  Joseph E . 15/07/07
  69.   # 12 atan 02:30  |  Jim 15/07/07
  70.   MA and "ancestral lands" 03:02  |  GZLives 15/07/07
  71.   Willie that`s an infantile comment 03:09  |  Jake 15/07/07
  72.   Persian Jews are an Integral Part of Our Nation and its History 03:12  |  Omid the Persian 15/07/07
  73.   Labhras again 03:18  |  Jake 15/07/07
  74.   35: ChanahS 03:36  |  Redivider 15/07/07
  75.   #Bob Lang. Iran has bigger jewels. 03:38  |  Maureen Ann 15/07/07
  76.   Reminds Me of The Last Jews to Leave Berlin 03:40  |  mike 15/07/07
  77.   #52, Lakshmi 03:42  |  Hannah 15/07/07
  78.   #58, Jim 03:46  |  Hannah 15/07/07
  79.   63: Topaganda 03:51  |  Redivider 15/07/07
  80.   Jews and Muslims in the Iranian espionage case 03:52  |  Guy From NYC 15/07/07
  81.   #64/65: Gentile and Willie 04:02  |  Hannah 15/07/07
  82.   #45 Say Rob---don`t drag Dr. King 04:15  |  ballistic 15/07/07
  83.   #59 MA --- OUCH!!! 04:20  |  ballistic 15/07/07
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