‘’France without its Jews is not France,’’ said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls as he spoke Saturday evening at a ceremony commemorating the four Jewish victims of a terrorist attack by an Islamist gunman against a kosher supermarket one year ago in Paris.

Youngsters and students from the Jewish community of Kherson, Ukraine, set out last week to show their respect for the deceased members of the community by cleaning up and renovating the local Jewish cemetery where they are buried.

Hennadiy Korban runs the nationalist UKROP party and has a seat on the board of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community.

“Kantor's big fear is that Lauder will be able to find an attractive candidate that will tip the scale and take Kantor's position away from him.”

Spying on allies is both routine and legal in the United States, though perhaps not very politic.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey must accept that it needs Israel.

Challenge for governments will be to better understand patterns of anti-Semitic violence and to encourage citizens to report incidents.

A group of Israeli passengers on a flight from Athens to Tel Aviv has forced the cabin crew to remove two Arabs on board before takeoff accusing them of being 'terrorists'.

An event commemorating the first anniversary of the murder of four Jews, Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada and Philippe Braham, by an Islamist terrorist, Amedy Coulibaly, in a kosher supermarket in Paris will take place on January 9.

Egypt has sent a new ambassador to Israel, a move Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will lead to a further strengthening of ties between Cairo and Jerusalem.