CRIF, the umbrella group of France’s Jewish communities, called on the general public to attend a commemoration on the first anniversary of the slaying of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket. CRIF made the call in a statement published Monday on its website, which said the event planned for Jan. 9 at the Hyper…
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of child victims of terrorist attacks in a celebration for their bar and bat mitzvahs. The 58 children celebrated their Jewish coming of age in an event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The event was part of a day arranged by the Association of Victims of…
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in a phone call on Tuesday to coordinate their two countries’ actions to fight terrorism in the Middle East, the Kremlin said in a statement. The two leaders discussed the Syrian crisis during their conversation. “Vladimir Putin stressed that there is no…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli teen who was stabbed by two Palestinian teens while riding his bike in Jerusalem celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Naor Ben-Ezra was joined at the celebration by members of the medical team who treated him at Hadassah Hospital after the October 12 attack in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood…
BERLIN – Two young men of Palestinian descent are on trial in Germany for planning to bomb the Israeli embassy in Berlin or other Israeli targets, a criminal court spokesman said on Wednesday. The two men, both aged 21, were arrested in July and appeared in court on Tuesday, where they were charged with planning…
An “acknowledged mercenary” and his partner have been arrested in connection with the deadly attack in January on a kosher supermarket in Paris that left four people dead. The man and woman arrested Tuesday are accused of helping to provide guns to Amedy Coulibaly in his siege of the Hyper Cacher on a busy Friday…
Hamas claimed responsibility for a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem that injured 14, saying the Palestinian driver was a member. Among those injured in Monday’s attack at the western entrance to the city was an 18-month-old boy, who reportedly had a leg amputated that night. Abed el-Muhsen Hassuna, 21, formerly of eastern Jerusalem, was living in…
It isn’t making headlines around the world like it was back in October, but Israelis and Palestinians continue to ride their “latest wave of violence.” Only this week, a Palestinian into a bus stop in Jerusalem, wounding more than 10 people, including an infant, and was shot dead by security forces. Over the weekend, clashes…
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