Europe
“I am ashamed that Jews do not feel safe wearing a kippah on the streets. I am ashamed that Jewish places of worship need protection,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Kujtim Fejzulai, 20, was released in December after serving only eight months of a 22-month sentence • ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.
The deadly Islamist terror attack in Vienna was not an isolated event but part of a wider assault on “our democracy, on our basic values, on the European lifestyle,” says Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
“The changing circumstances in the Middle East are advancing peace and prosperity for all,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells visiting Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban.
“Civilized peoples everywhere must unite to defeat the savagery of resurgent Islamist terrorism,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The synagogue was reportedly closed at the time; public transportation in the capital city was halted and people advised to avoid the area.
The Islamic Republic is fearful of an Israeli presence on its northwest border, in addition to the presence of Turkish-backed Sunni operatives sent to help the Azeris, a former National Security Council member tells JNS.
London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research puts the Jewish population of the continent, including Britain, Russia and Turkey, at the same number cited by famed traveler Benjamin of Tudela in 1170.
After the “Oruç Reis” survey vessel returned to the eastern Mediterranean, countries criticized the move.
“We have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by Iran, and separately, by Russia,” says U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe.
Ambassador Emmanuel Nahshon tweets that use by “The Brussels Times” of such a picture to illustrate a story on international COVID-19 deaths is “unnecessary and unpleasant.”
“The message must be sent that the further development of this ‘market’ is taboo and beyond the norms of acceptability,” said Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association.
