A Paris rabbi has claimed that every Jew is France is considering leaving the country because of anti-Semitism.

Moshe Sabbag, rabbi of La Victoire, has said that '100 per cent' of French Jews are thinking of moving, but find the prospect daunting.

The number who moved to Israel went up from 1,900 in 2011 to around 8,000 last year, and the rabbi says many more are likely to follow.

Paris' Synagogue de la Victoire rabbi Moshe Sebbag has said that all French Jews are considering leaving the country because they do not feel safe

Britain has also been a popular destination for French Jews following a rise of anti-Semitism.

Earlier this year Marc Mayer, director of the Conference of European Rabbis, said French children now made up 50 per cent of the intake at London's Jewish schools.

Before leading a service at the famous Paris synagogue, USA Today reports, he said that French Jews 'love France, they love French culture, they want to stay'.

He said: 'But Jews were targeted during huge demonstrations against the 2014 Gaza war.'

And referring to a 2012 attack on a Jewish school that killed four people, and last year's supermarket attack, he said: 'They were killed in Toulouse and Hypercacher.'

Armed security officers on patrol outside a Jewish school in the Marais district in Paris last year, amid a heightened climate of fear among the 500,000 to 600,000 French Jews

A report published earlier this year by Human Rights First said the number of anti-Semitic incidents in France had risen from 423 to 851 - with half of these happening in France, Marseille and Lyon.

But researchers also found that 82 per cent had experienced anti-Semitism, but not reported it.

Jacques Canet, president of La Victoire, echoed the fears, saying the country's Jewish population, estimated to be between 500,000 to 600,000, 'feel threatened'.

He said: 'Increasingly, Jews in Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse, Sarcelles feel they can’t safely wear a kippah (yarmulke, or skull cap) outside their homes or send their children to public schools, where Muslim children bully Jewish children.'

Increasingly, Jews in Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse, Sarcelles feel they can’t safely wear a kippah (yarmulke, or skull cap) outside their homes or send their children to public schools Jacques Canet

But in 2016 there has been a 40 per cent fall in the number of Jews leaving France for Israel.

Dov Maimon, who is a senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), said around 100 French families had returned to France from Israel.

The JPPI believes around 5,000 people will have emigrated from France to Israel by the end of the year.

Explaining reasons for the fall he said: 'First, Jews in France are feeling more secure because the (French) prime minister has beefed up security around Jewish institutions, while the increase in terror attacks this winter in Israel may have scared off some people. It may also be that the most ideologically driven Jews have already immigrated.'

And he added that Israel could not offer them the same prospects as France, stating: 'They believed Israel would provide them with jobs and housing, but France is a welfare state. Israel is not.'

A JPPI report released this week said an estimated 200,000 French Jews - 40 per cent - have expressed an interest in moving to Israel.

It said: 'The aliyah slowdown does not necessarily indicate that the pool of French Jewish aliyah candidates has "dried up" or that interest in immigration has lessened.

'Rather, it likely indicates the existence of delaying factors that have yet to be addressed.'