Belgian police were hunting a gunman on Sunday who shot dead two Israelis and a French woman at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, in an attack French President Francois Hollande said was without doubt motivated by anti-Semitism. Security around all Jewish institutions in Belgium was raised to the highest level following Saturday’s shooting, while French…
(Haaretz) — It is too early to jump to conclusions over the identity of the shooter in Satruday’s terror attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. And still, it’s hard to avoid the initial impression that the pattern fits other anti-Jewish attacks, locally organized and without the backing of a terror group. Most likely carried…
An employee of the Jewish museum of Brussels died of injuries he sustained in the shooting there, bringing the death toll to four people. The fourth fatality from Saturday afternoon’s shooting passed away later Saturday night, the Benelux broadcaster RTL reported on its website. The other victims were an Israeli couple, the Israeli foreign minister…
(Reuters) — Two women and a man were killed and one person seriously injured in a likely “terrorist” shooting in central Brussels at the city’s Jewish Museum on Saturday, officials said. An Israeli couple was among the victims, Israeli sources told Haaretz. A third victim was a museum volunteer. The fourth was a museum worker…
An Israeli couple was killed in the mass shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Israeli sources told Haaretz. The third fatality was a female volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Belgium, according to an unconfirmed report Saturday night on the news site HLN.be, which is the online edition of the Het Laatste Nieuws daily….
Belgian police used a water cannon to disperse a crowd of people that gathered for an anti-Semitic event. Some 500 people gathered in front of a bookstore in the Anderlecht municipality of Brussels on Sunday for the event, that Jewish groups called a “summit meeting for anti-Semites.” No one was arrested in the standoff, which…
The foreign policy chief of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, is under furious attack for a speech she gave March 19, several hours after the deadly shootings at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, in which she mentioned the Toulouse attack and deaths of Palestinian youths in Gaza in the same sentence. First Israeli Foreign…
