U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Doha, Qatar "later this week" to join the ongoing ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, the White House confirmed on Monday afternoon.

U.S. President Donald Trump is currently focused on getting Hamas to agree to the Qatar-brokered proposal that Israel has already approved, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists.

"I don't want to comment on the details of the arrangement out of respect for these negotiations, but an agreeable and appropriate ceasefire has been sent to Hamas," said Leavitt.

Witkoff "intends to travel to Doha later this week, where he will continue to engage in these discussions," the White House spokeswoman stated.

"The Qataris and the Egyptians have been incredibly helpful partners in mediating these negotiations and discussions to bring peace to this region and end this conflict once and for all," she added.

Hebrew media reported that Witkoff could fly out as early as Tuesday.

Witkoff, speaking with the press on Monday evening before a working dinner with Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said, "We have an opportunity to finally get a peace deal, Mr. Prime Minister, as we discussed, and I'm hopeful for it very quickly."

However, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a key member of Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, said the Jewish state had "no choice" but to keep fighting.

"Those who, out of pain and shortsightedness, call for surrender to the enemy and a halt to the fighting before its destruction will, God forbid, bring about far greater bloodshed in the inevitable future rounds of conflict that will surely come soon," Smotrich tweeted on Tuesday.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called on the prime minister to "immediately recall the delegation that went to negotiate with the Hamas murderers in Doha."

"There is no need to negotiate with those who kill our fighters—they must be crushed to dust, starved to death and not given air through humanitarian aid that provides them oxygen," Ben-Gvir tweeted.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli also urged Netanyahu to "decisively" defeat Hamas, "with a resounding victory, without giving it further respite to recover and reorganize."

Meanwhile, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid Party) stated: "For the sake of the fighters, for the sake of their families, for the sake of the hostages, for the sake of the State of Israel: this war must be ended."

The United States is pressuring Qatar to "deliver" on efforts to finalize a deal for the release of the hostages, according to Israel Hayom. A source familiar with the matter told the outlet that from the White House's perspective, with Israel having responded positively to the latest truce proposal, it is now Qatar's responsibility to ensure the terrorist group agrees as well.

Israel's negotiators updated Netanyahu on Monday that the atmosphere in Doha remained positive, and a member of the premier's delegation rejected reports that the talks had stalled and said there was a good chance of reaching a deal during Netanyahu's U.S. ongoing visit.

A Palestinian source told AFP that the indirect talks would continue on Tuesday and were "focused on the mechanisms for implementation, particularly the clauses related to withdrawal and humanitarian [aid]."

Last week, Trump said that "we're close to a deal on Gaza," adding: "I think there's a good chance we have a deal with Hamas during the coming week. We've gotten a lot of the hostages out, but pertaining to the remaining hostages, quite a few of them will be coming out."

Fifty hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, including at least 20 who are believed to be alive 640 days after being taken during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border massacre in southern Israeli communities.

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday that it would be demolishing the Samaria homes of four terrorists responsible for murdering six Israelis and wounding nine others.

The confiscation and demolition orders were issued by the IDF after the families of the terrorists, all of whom had been killed by security forces, were given the opportunity to challenge the decision in an Israeli court.

The first two orders targeted the residences of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Mohammad Nazal and Mohammad Zakarneh in Qabatiya, near Jenin in northern Samaria. The two were part of a cell that carried out a Jan. 6 shooting near the town of Al-Funduq in which three Israelis were slain.

Another order was issued for the home of Wael Lahlouh, a Qabatiya resident responsible for the Aug. 11 Jordan Valley shooting in which Yonatan Deutsch, 23, was murdered and another Israeli was wounded.

The fourth home to be demolished is that of Mohammad Daraghmeh, of Tubas, near Nablus, who killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded eight, including two seriously, at an army post near the village of Tayasir on the morning of Feb. 4.

The demolition of terrorists' homes has been a subject of controversy for years. Israel's security establishment believes that the policy bolsters deterrence and prevents further terrorist activity.

In 2023, demolitions were virtually halted, according to an Israel Hayom investigation carried out with the Im Tirtzu NGO. However, in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the military has picked up the pace, issuing orders for a significant number of terrorists' residences.

Six African countries have established pro-Israel parliamentary groups, strengthening diplomatic, economic and faith-based ties with the Jewish state amid regional geopolitical realignments.

The move, which was announced on Monday, two weeks after the Israel-Iran war ended with a ceasefire, was the latest in a growing diplomatic tug-of-war between supporters and opponents of the Jewish state in Africa. While South Africa has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of Israel worldwide, other African countries have pushed back and are now further strengthening ties rooted in a mix of shared interests and faith.

“Israel sees Africa as a strategic and values-based partner, and we continue to deepen our cooperation through initiatives in agriculture, healthcare and employment,” Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel, who has led the government’s outreach to Africa, told JNS in a statement welcoming the move. “These growing ties reflect our shared values of liberty, innovation and faith.”

The new Israel Allies Caucuses launched in Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Seychelles, Gabon and Guinea Conakry join a network of more than 60 such faith-based parliamentary groups in countries around the globe, more than one-third of which are now in Africa.

“The addition of both Ethiopia, where the African Union is headquartered and is seen as the gateway of African diplomacy, as well as several francophone countries offers both the political and diplomatic diversity that Africa represents,” said Bishop Dennis Nthumbi, Africa Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Israel Allies Foundation, which spearheads faith-based diplomacy and runs the global parliamentary network, encompassing more than 1,500 pro-Israel lawmakers. “The Trump administration has opened a window where Africa can express itself freely devoid of the fear and threats previously coming from Iran,” he added.

“The principles of justice, peace and mutual respect that underpin your mission resonate fully with my personal beliefs and political commitments,” said Guinean MP Dorcas Nema Dione, the new chair of Guinea Conakry Israel Allies Caucus, a country under military rule.

“I seek to deepen and broaden my nation’s relationship with Israel, the nation of God,” said Lesotho MP Rev. Paul Pusetso Masiu. “The ultimate intention is to establish much stronger binational relations between Lesotho and Israel, to the extent that Lesotho establishes an embassy in Jerusalem and Israel in Lesotho.”

600 million Christians and 54 UN votes

Israel’s deputy foreign minister, a former global leader in the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus who has made multiple visits across Africa over the last year and a half, has long emphasized the strategic value of religious diplomacy on the continent, where there are an estimated 600 million Christians and 54 United Nations votes.

Last year, Israel’s African allies thwarted an attempt by African countries, led by South Africa and Algeria, to strip Israel of its observer status at the 55-member African Union, a title held by other countries such as China, Greece, Kuwait, Mexico, “Palestine,” the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Last fall, scores of African parliamentarians from 20 nations on the continent subsequently affirmed Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital and pledged to enhance diplomatic, economic and security cooperation with the Jewish state, in an inaugural Africa-Israel Parliamentary Summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.

“The creation of these six new caucuses is more than a diplomatic milestone; it is a powerful affirmation of our shared biblical values and a forward-looking vision for partnership, prosperity and peace,” said Josh Reinstein, president of the Israel Allies Foundation. “This is faith-based diplomacy in action—uniting nations around common moral principles and a mutual commitment to stand with Israel.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role in advancing peace initiatives in the Middle East.

Netanyahu handed Trump his letter to the Nobel Committee—submitted on July 1—during a White House meeting between the two leaders on Monday evening, according to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office.

Trump has shown “steadfast and exceptional dedication to promoting peace, security and stability around the world,” Netanyahu wrote, adding that his efforts led to a “dramatic change” in the Middle East through the Abraham Accords normalization agreements.

“These breakthroughs reshaped the Middle East and marked a historic advance toward peace, security and regional stability,” Netanyahu wrote, praising the U.S. president’s “vision and bold leadership” for promoting “innovative diplomacy defined not by conflict and extremism but by cooperation, dialogue and shared prosperity.”

“Few leaders have achieved such tangible breakthroughs to peace in such a short time. In these times of great historic change, I can think of no one more deserving than President Trump of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Netanyahu concluded in his letter to the Norway-based Nobel Committee.

Speaking to reporters before a working dinner at the White House on Monday night, Netanyahu said the “partnership between Israel and the United States—the partnership between President Trump and me—produced a historic victory” over Iran.

The Israeli leader likened the joint efforts of Jerusalem and Washington against Tehran to setting back “the two tumors that were threatening the life of Israel: the nuclear tumor and the ballistic-missile tumor.”

However, he cautioned that “when you remove a tumor, that doesn’t mean that it can’t come back. You have to constantly monitor the situation to make sure that there’s no attempt to bring it back.”

Asked about the IED blast in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day, which killed five Israeli soldiers, Trump said he did not believe the attack would impact ongoing ceasefire-for-hostages negotiations.

U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff called the incident “terribly unfortunate,” but maintained that there was still an opportunity for a ceasefire with Hamas, expressing hope that an agreement would be reached “very quickly.”

Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, conducted a field tour and held a high-level situational assessment in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis on Monday, as part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots.”

Zamir reviewed the latest developments and met with troops on the ground. “We continue to operate in all arenas, on all fronts,” he said during his address to soldiers.

“Tonight, alongside the operations you are carrying out here, we operated in Yemen, we operated in Lebanon,” he continued. “We are operating everywhere—near and far.”

Highlighting the broader strategic scope, Zamir said: “In Iran, we are monitoring the assessment of the impact, and I tell you here, our assessment is that it is high.”

However, he emphasized that the IDF’s “current focus, the central front, is Gaza.”

“We are determined—let this be clear to everyone—determined to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves: the return of the hostages, the defeat of Hamas and the safe return of our communities,” he stated.

“We will continue to act here with determination, with perseverance, with strength and with wisdom—and we will lead to victory.”

Zamir praised the IDF’s accomplishments in the ongoing offensive. “You have achieved great accomplishments here. The greatest achievements since ‘Swords of Iron’ began are here in the Gaza Strip.”

Zamir was joined by senior military officials, including Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor (Southern Command), Maj. Gen. Itzik Cohen (Operations Directorate), Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder (Intelligence Directorate), Brig. Gen. Moran Omer (36th Division) and Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram (Gaza Division).

According to IDF statistics shared during the visit, over 1,300 terrorists have been eliminated, including senior Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Sabaneh, head of the terrorist organization’s “military wing.”

Zamir noted that Israeli forces are actively dismantling underground infrastructure and shaping strategic opportunities in coordination with political leadership.

“We are very close to a decision-making crossroads,” Zamir said, adding that “all the options we are presenting and discussing have one goal: returning the hostages and a decisive victory.”

Concluding his remarks to the troops, he said: “All the achievements here are thanks to you.”

Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and 14 others wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Tuesday morning.

The casualties were identified as Sgt. Moshe Nissim Frech, 20, from Jerusalem; Staff-Sgt. Meir Shimon Amar, 20, from Jerusalem; Staff-Sgt. Noam Aharon Musgadian, 20, from Jerusalem; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Benyamin Asulin, 20, from Haifa; and Staff-Sgt. Moshe Shmuel Noll, 21, from Beit Shemesh.

Four of the fallen were members of the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion, while Asulin served in the Gaza Division's Northern Brigade.

Of the 14 wounded in the bombing, two servicemen, both from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, sustained serious wounds, the military announced.

According to Israel's Kan News public broadcaster, the Gaza Division's Northern Brigade launched its operation in Beit Hanoun, which had been captured by the army multiple times during the 21-month-long war but has seen a resurgence in terrorist activity, on Saturday night.

Around 10 p.m. on Monday, the soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which has been operating under the Northern Brigade, were targeted by a terrorist ambush while crossing Beit Hanoun on foot, per Kan News.

During attempts to evacuate the wounded for treatment, troops were said to have been shot at by the terrorists who had ambushed them.

The broadcaster cited IDF sources as saying that the area was attacked by the Israeli Air Force in preparations for the ground maneuver and that it remained unclear when the explosive charge was placed.

"On this difficult morning, the entire nation of Israel bows its head in mourning over the loss of our heroic soldiers, who gave their lives in the battle to defeat Hamas and to bring home all our hostages," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"We embrace the families who have lost their most precious loved ones and pray for the full recovery of those injured in the incident," he stated, adding: "Their sacrifice and heroism will be forever etched in our hearts. May their memory be blessed. May God avenge their blood."

Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated on X: "The unbearable news about the fall in the Gaza Strip of five heroic sons—most of them soldiers from the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion—pierces the heart."

The IDF continues "to fight day and night with unimaginable human resilience. It is our sacred duty to draw all the necessary lessons in order to safeguard the lives of our brave fighters—even in the depths of battle," Herzog added.

"I pray from the depths of my heart for the full recovery of the many wounded in this terrible tragedy, and I extend my sincere condolences to the grieving families who have lost what was most precious to them," he added.

The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 444, and at 888 on all fronts since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, according to official IDF data.

The IDF is continuing to press ahead with ground operations across Gaza as part of "Gideon’s Chariots," a campaign with the stated goal of dismantling Hamas’s remaining military capabilities, taking control of key areas in Gaza and securing the release of the remaining 50 captives.

Throughout history, Jewish communities have lived with an unspoken understanding: always have a plan B. For nearly two millennia, this meant maintaining the ability to leave when social winds shifted, when tolerance turned to persecution. From medieval expulsions to Eastern European pogroms, from the Holocaust to postwar displacement, Jewish survival often depended on mobility and the painful wisdom of knowing when to go.

Today, as antisemitism rises again across Western democracies—from New York streets to European universities—Jewish communities face familiar anxieties. Yet something fundamental has changed: For the first time in two millennia, there exists a state where Jews are not guests but citizens, not minorities but the majority.

Jewish immigration has often followed the contours of persecution and opportunity. The 1492 Spanish expulsion scattered Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. The Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1657 drove Polish-Lithuanian survivors westward. Each wave reinforced the psychological reality of impermanence.

The pattern was consistent: initial welcome and integration, followed by economic competition, social tension, scapegoating during crises, and finally expulsion or flight. Jews learned to read the signs, changes in rhetoric, new legal restrictions and shifts in popular sentiment.

The largest Jewish migration occurred between 1880 and 1924, when approximately 2.5 million Eastern European Jews fled to America, driven by economic hardship, legal discrimination and violent pogroms in the Russian Empire. Yet even in the “Golden Land,” the plan B mentality persisted in the first half of the 20th century with the Leo Frank trial and lynching in 1913, university admission quotas and Father Charles Coughlin’s antisemitic radio broadcasts.

The Holocaust represents the catastrophic failure of traditional Jewish survival strategies. European Jews who had navigated centuries of persecution found themselves trapped by the speed, scope and systematic nature of Nazi genocide. Traditional escape routes were blocked, and entire communities were annihilated.

More recently, New York, which is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel, has witnessed alarming increases in antisemitic incidents in recent years. Orthodox Jews in the borough of Brooklyn face physical attacks, synagogues require security guards, and Jewish students report campus harassment. The sources include white supremacist groups, Black Hebrew Israelite extremists, Islamist radicals and progressive activists who conflate Judaism with Zionism.

European Jewish communities face even more severe challenges. France, for instance, has witnessed steady Jewish emigration, with approximately 50,000 Jews leaving for Israel since 2000. The Toulouse school shooting (2012), the Hyper Cacher supermarket attack (2015), and the murders of Ilan Halimi (2006) and Sarah Halimi (2017) created a climate of fear that statistics cannot capture.

The growth of Islamist extremism has introduced a new variable. Unlike traditional European antisemitism, which was often cyclical and responsive to local conditions, Islamist antisemitism is ideological, imported and connected to global conflicts. It’s less susceptible to integration and education, making it a persistent, long-term threat.

The establishment of the modern-day State of Israel in 1948 altered Jewish history. For the first time since the Second Temple’s destruction, Jews had political sovereignty in their ancestral homeland. They were no longer dependent on host societies’ goodwill or others’ protection.

Early waves of aliyah were driven by ideology or necessity. More recently, these waves increasingly reflect choice—French Jews seeking security, American Jews seeking meaning, Russian Jews seeking opportunity. The absorption of more than a million Jews from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s demonstrated Israel’s capacity to integrate large populations successfully.

For Jews living in Israel, plan B is obsolete not because threats don’t exist, but because this is home in a way Diaspora communities never could be. When rockets fall on Tel Aviv or terrorists attack Jerusalem, Israelis don’t pack their bags. They dig in deeper, improve defenses and reaffirm their commitment to Jewish sovereignty.

This represents a revolutionary change in Jewish psychology. Instead of asking “How long will they let us stay?” Israeli Jews ask, “How can we make this better?” Instead of maintaining portable assets and multiple identities, they invest everything in building a Jewish future in the Jewish homeland.

Many Diaspora Jews today choose stronger connections to Israel, not from fear but from attraction. Some choose aliyah as a positive life choice, wanting their children to grow up as part of the Jewish majority and wanting to contribute to Jewish sovereignty.

Even Jews who never plan to move to Israel benefit from its existence. Knowing that Israel exists provides psychological comfort that their ancestors never had. The anxiety of “What if?” is answered with the knowledge that “we have somewhere to go.”

The existence of Israel means that Jewish survival is no longer dependent on others’ tolerance. Jews can choose their own future, defend their own interests and build their own society. After 2,000 years of asking, “How long can we stay?” Jews can finally say, “We’re home.” And that changes everything.

A Spanish mayor on Sunday invited anti-Israel activists to launch the annual San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, where they lit a rocket-shaped firework while shouting “Long live free Palestine” as revelers held up a giant banner that read “destroy Israel.”

The Israeli embassy in Spain condemned the incident as a sign of “an obsession” with the Jewish state.

The traditional week-long festival features the well-known Running of the Bulls, in which the animals are let loose in sectioned-off parts of Pamplona as people run ahead of them.

Wearing keffiyehs, the activists from the anti-Israel Yala Nafarroa con Palestina organization led the festival’s opening ceremony. One of the activists, Lidón Soriano, told the audience: “There’s a genocide,” prompting applause. “Free Palestine,” she screamed, as thousands of people gathered on Pamplona’s main square jumped up and down waving ceremonial red bandanas, some emblazoned with a drawing of the borders of Israel labelled as “Palestine.”

She and another activist, Eduardo Ibero, lit the fuse of a rocket-shaped firework, whose launch traditionally signals the official start of the event. As the firework was launched, Soriano screamed into the microphone: “Long live Free Palestine,” drawing fresh applause.

In the plaza below them, thousands huddled around a display made up of individuals dressed in dark colors who stood in the shape of the State of Israel. They later spread a giant banner that read "destroy Israel."

The lighting of the firework has been a part of the ceremony for many years, but its inclusion in Yala Nafarroa’s nationalist Palestinian message shocked some critics also because of its perceived allusion to the launch of rockets at Israel by Hamas.

“It pains me to see that Pamplona is governed by defenders of ETA and Hamas terrorism. Seeing the start of this year’s San Fermin Festival is making me feel sick to my stomach,” wrote on X Javier Negre, a prominent Spanish journalist who founded the EDATV channel.  

ETA was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist terror organization in the Basque Country until it was disbanded in 2018. Pamplona is considered part of the Basque region of Spain.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the chairman of the European Jewish Association, referenced in his comment to JNS the many Basque separatist symbols on display at San Fermin.

"For 3,000 years, Jews longed for independence. We won it. That radical independence movements hate us for defending the world’s only Jewish state speaks volumes about their politics and their antisemitism: [To them] everyone can have a country, unless you are Jewish," he said.

Pamplona's cultural celebration "was hijacked by hate" in "the latest example of the genocide blood libel that has infected public events from rock concerts to sport events across Europe. It is disturbing, and it’s dangerous," he added.

"What Palestine has to do with a bull run is a mystery. But you can be sure that no excuse is needed by these far-left terror sympathizers to spread the stuff that bulls leave behind" when it comes to Israel, he said.

Mayor Joseba Asiron expressed his "pride" at the message of "solidarity, rationality and humanity" delivered at the "sweetest moment" of the event, according to the EFE news agency.

Israel’s embassy on X expressed its “disgust” at the event. It is “intolerable that Spanish institutions support individuals or groups whose goal is to incite hatred against Israel and that in no way contribute to peace. This obsession against the Jewish state, especially when it is endorsed by public institutions, is further fueling the growing levels of antisemitism,” the embassy added.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou listed at length the disastrous litany of assassinations and other attacks that have targeted Jews down the ages in an address last week to the annual dinner in Paris of Crif, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions.

The annual event, which this year took place on July 3, brings together government ministers, politicians, religious leaders, and representatives of the Jewish community, civil society and the media.

Bayrou denounced the “delirious, murderous beast” of antisemitism.

“The beast surprises us all the more because it has changed shape,” bemoaned Bayrou, who said that “the monster has grown other heads” that no longer have the face of the extreme right but rather of radical Islamism.

Referring to the Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom committed by Hamas in southern Israel, the prime minister said that “there can be no balance in the Middle East until Israel is recognized by its neighbors and protected from the nuclear fire of those who have never ceased to proclaim their sole obsession and intention to destroy it.”

Bayrou reaffirmed “France’s unfailing friendship."

Before him, Yonathan Arfi, the re-elected president of Crif, launched an “appeal to our republican spirit of resistance.”

Denouncing the “obsession with Jews in public debate” and “atmospheric antisemitism,” he argued that “for violence to stop, it’s not enough to deplore it; you have to know how to fight.

“Forty years ago, we were called ‘Dirty Jews’; 20 years ago, ‘Dirty Zionists’; today, ‘Genocidaires,’” Arfi continued, lamenting the way in which some people are struggling to ‘nazify’ the world’s only Jewish state in order to “relieve consciences” of the Shoah.

“Israel’s cause is just, in this war it has not chosen,” he stressed, citing in particular the fight against the Hamas terrorist organization and the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program.

Arfi reiterated his criticism of extreme-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, de facto leader of the far-left La France Insoumise ("France Unbowed") party, for “reducing Gaza to an electoral slogan.” The Crif president also reiterated his promise to “render the political influence of La France Insoumise residual,” a reference to Melenchon’s remark that antisemitism in France is merely “residual.”

Regarding the recent war between Israel and Iran, Arfi deplored “the erratic positions of certain European diplomats,” including “that of our country.” He said he regretted that despite “its support for strikes against the Iranian nuclear threat,” the French government had blocked access to the Israeli stand at the Paris Air Show in June.

The Crif president concluded his remarks by celebrating the republic as a “community of destiny.”

“Fighting antisemitism means bringing together all French people,” he said, calling for a republican school, a firm secularism and stronger justice against online hatred.

Also on July 3, the French Interior Ministry announced a documented increase in acts targeting Jews. It recorded 504 such acts in the first half of 2025, down 24% on the same period in 2024, but up 134% from 2023.

Originally published by the European Jewish Press.