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They demanded that public funding for civil and religious groups should be granted only if those groups have distanced themselves from all forms of anti-Semitism—a kind of pro-democracy oath.
Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurevitch was on his way to synagogue on Friday when a group of teens spotted his kippah and began shouting anti-Semitic slurs • Gurevitch: Anti-Semitism is becoming normalized and standard.
Police said that the 25-year-old victim had approached a group of people in a park to borrow a lighter when they noticed that he was wearing a Star of David necklace. They began to hurl anti-Semitic insults at him, grabbed the cigarette from his mouth and punched him.
The Israel Defense Forces flew a platoon of 40 soldiers and officers to Europe, where together with American troops they parachuted down to the ground from aircraft, and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
German parliamentarians approved a $600 million agreement to lease Heron TP military drones manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries, part of a roughly billion-dollar deal with Israel.
Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe now face not only traditional anti-Semitism from the far-right, but also from far-left parts of European society and from Muslim immigrant communities. The focal point is a “biased view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
The 14-year-old girl, identified as Susanna Feldmann, was found on the outskirts of the western German city of Wiesbaden.
According to Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein, an estimated “1,500 anti-Semitic attacks are registered by police every year.”
Rabbi David Lau called on Jews threatened by anti-Semitism to move to Israel, but nevertheless to keep expressing their religious observance.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took off for Germany to attend the 2018 Munich Security Conference. He will be the first Israeli prime minister to take part in the conference in the 55 years since it began.
He is expected to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to lobby the European leaders on “fixing” the Iranian nuclear accord.
