ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impact that the crisis could have upon the identity of the Canadian and Québécois Jewish community against a backdrop of Canadian multicultural policy by analysing the motivations for migration flows from Israel to Canada via the Convention refugee claiming route, the nature of the group that has chosen to make this passage, and the kinds of Canadian Semitic values that are being jeopardized or threatened by the success of their claims to be Convention refugees. One of the major issues for the Israeli government, and specifically for the Minister of Absorption, is how to help the olm integrate in to Israeli society. Integration is motivated and assisted through the participation of several agencies who assist by transporting olm to Israel, finding them jobs, and bringing the children into the school and social systems.
