Israel's opposition leader Isaac Herzog delivered a startling message to the Trump administration on Monday: Israel must prepare to accept American Jews fleeing the country amid a new wave of anti-Semitism. The leader of the Zionist Union Party-the main challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud faction and far-right coalition-was reacting to a rise of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S., including the desecration of tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia and multiple bomb threats at Jewish centers and schools across the country. "I call on the government to urgently prepare and draw up a national emergency plan for the possibility of waves of immigration of our Jewish brothers to Israel," Herzog said at a meeting of his party on Monday, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
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