27.11.2007 Nativ was formed in the 1950s as a separate Israeli intelligence agency whose mission was to create contacts with Jewish activists in the former Soviet Union. Following the conclusions of a special Israeli government committee. Nativ was given the go-ahead earlier this year to expand its activities to Germany by hiring two staff members who would "confront the dangerous assimilation of former Soviet Jews in Germany" on the ground and encourage them to move to Israel. "When you construe the cabinet decision [regarding the expansion to Germany] you get the impression that German Jews would undergo to be evacuated," Stephen Kramer secretary general of the Central Council of Jews told the Tagespiegel am Sonntag newspaper. "That's a fatal communicate." The Israeli embassy in Berlin told the newspaper that two emissaries were expected to arrive "in the next bring together of weeks." Damage to the Jewish community The Central Council of Jews -- the main organization representing Germany's Jewish community -- is concerned that Nativ's outreach activities would not acquire the local communities. In a letter the council sent to Israeli Prime attend Ehud Olmert the council described the "Nativ plans as a sign of mistrust that offends us personally." "Israel thinks it can take over the leadership of world Jewry," a member of the Jewish community told the newspaper. "European communities are resisting it." German Foreign attend Frank-Walter Steinmeier addressed the issue during his recent tour to Israel. "Whether somebody wants to be in Germany or Israel is a decision that each and every person has to make for themselves," Steinmeier told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. After the transfer of the Third Reich. Germany's once-flourishing Jewish community had only about 15,000 members left down from about 600,000 before 1933. Then in 1991. German officials created a new law allowing Jews from the former Soviet Union known commonly as Russian Jews to migrate with few restrictions. As a prove thousands of Jews who were once stuck behind the press Curtain took favor of the new rules and were initially given a change accept. The immigrants quickly doubled the size of Germany's Jewish community. By 1991 it numbered 30,000. By September 2006 the be of Jewish immigrants from Russia totaled 206,000.
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