Large majority also rejected a recent claim made by Transport Minister Yisrael Katz that campaign for public transportation on Shabbat was politically motivated.

“There are Jewish communities in Europe that again feel insecure and we have been sadly reminded that violent anti-Semitism, intolerance and fanaticism remain a threat, ” EU says.

The President of the European Parliament urged Europeans to fight the ''demons'' of racism and anti-Semitism that still haunt Europe in a speech at a ceremony marking the liberation of Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp 70 years ago.

2014 saw a huge increase in violent anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, according to an annual study published in Israel.

Israel has reacted with concern to the news that Russia has decided to lift a freeze on the sale of the S-300 advanced anti-aircraft system to Iran.

The victims were members of an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and were on the way to the hospital.

We must ''show the world we are not scared and we don't accept that we need [to] hide [and] to make sure that no one can see that we're Jewish.''

''The next decade is crucial because Holocaust survivors, the eyewitnesses to the events, will be gone,'' says Dr. Florence Luxenberg-Eisenberg.

In extensive meetings with some of the most powerful Jewish organizations in the country, the president hopes to get support for landmark deal.

Moshe Shimon Pessach saved nearly three quarters of his community by hiding them in neighboring villages.