Tomorrow (Sunday) about 68 million French people will wake up for the second round of the presidential election, an election that has been defined as the most decisive for decades.
This is an election that will determine the character of France in the coming years - and is also likely to greatly affect its relations with Israel and the fate of the Jewish community in France, which numbers about half a million Jews.
Incumbent President Emanuel Macron and Marin Le Pen, who heads the far-right camp, advanced to the second round and managed to close the gap compared to the 2017 election.
Le Pen, for those who do not remember, is the youngest daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, replacing him as head of the party he led for 39 years.
Le Pen Sr. claimed that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were "a small detail in the history of World War II" and even defended Henri-Philippe Petten, a Vichy regime leader who collaborated with the Nazis.
Marin holds similar views, but she is more sophisticated than her father.
She realized that in the run-up to the election it was better for her to moderate her statements about the Jews and Israel, and let others do the work.
It was mainly Arik Zmor, a Jewish journalist and intellectual who ran in the first round and garnered about 7.1% of the vote (translated into numbers: close to 2.5 million voters who expressed confidence in his way and his extremist views).
Zamor, previously convicted of incitement to hatred, argued throughout the campaign that the Vichy regime that collaborated with Nazism was at all a "regime that saved Jews," that Alfred Dreyfus might not have been eligible at all, and called on all voters to vote in the second round for Le Pen.
The Jews of France looked in amazement at the Jews calling to vote for her, and in the run-up to the election they fear more than ever for their future and existence in the country.
Although Marine Le Pen has remained silent in recent months regarding Israel and the Jews, it is only because it has served it temporarily.
Her positions are well known: she advocates erasing identity symbols from the public sphere, including Jewish symbols, she has previously supported a ban on kosher slaughter in France, stated that she would deny Jews dual citizenship, and contrary to the French government's official position The Jews to the concentration camps.
Not to be confused: she did not abandon her positions, but "hid" them for a while to look less extreme.
Some claim that Le Pen is a friend of Israel, but this is a big mistake.
She advocates making Jerusalem a city of special international status, which will serve as the capital of the three religions;
Such a move means that Jerusalem will no longer be under Israeli control, and will be under UN control.
Beyond that, Le Pen supports nationalist regimes and is friendly with quite a few extremist leaders in Europe and around the world.
She opposes her views on dual citizenship and demands the abolition of the pension for French citizens who no longer live in France, so that the tens of thousands of French immigrants who are in Israel and entitled to a pension will find themselves without bread tomorrow, and the State of Israel will lose income as a result.
It is bad for the Jews and bad for Israel.
Even if Macron is re-elected president at the end of the day, it will be his last term, as France has a term of office.
The young people of France support the extremist parties, and it is very possible that it will only be a matter of time before the leader of the far right takes her place as President of France.
In such a situation, the question among the Jews will no longer be "who to vote for" but "which country to flee to."
And this is also the place to call for decision-makers in the State of Israel: Shortly before we mark Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day, the French elections are another reminder that anti-Semitism and racism are still very much present in France in particular and in Europe in general.
The inscription is on the wall, and the State of Israel must prepare, initiate and implement a plan right now to bring tens of thousands of Jews from France.
Otherwise, it may be too late.
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