A European Jewish leader called on European governments not to become complacent following a period of reprieve from terror attacks in Europe.

European Jewish Association Director Rabbi Margolin issued the rousing call during a self-defense training session organized in, Berlin on Tuesday during the annual conference of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) aimed at ensuring that “all the 100 rabbis who attended the meeting will be able to defend themselves in case of an emergency.’’

Margolin insisted that ‘’no matter if it looks like the situation is more settled, it’s never settled it’s never calm, and we feel the threat and concern in Europe.’’

‘’For this reason we would like the European governments to know that they still have to give high level security to all Jewish institutions to make sure the Jews of Europe feel comfortable in their countries,’’ he added.

Such self-defense training session for the rabbis, the second of its kind organized by the RCE following last year’s successful inaugural training in Prague, does not negate the European governments’ responsibility to secure European Jewry.

“I hope and expect governments to protect European citizens, including the Jewish communities,’’ Rabbi Margolin said.

He refuted attempts to attribute the escalation of anti-Semitism and rising anti-Jewish attitudes to Europe’s Muslim community as “looking for excuses”.

Quoting the recent poll by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on global anti-Semitic attitudes, he added that “you can see that the countries with the highest levels of antisemitism are those which have almost no Muslim community such as Poland, Romania, Hungary, Greece”.

The migrant crisis, he insisted, contributed very little to growing anti-Semitism in Europe, considering that “there are approximately 500 million people in Europe …I wouldn’t say the biggest threat is migrants as long as the government understands that it’s something that has to be addressed as soon as possible by educating them in European values”.

The Chairman of the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, Norbert Lammert, who addressed the conference of rabbis, declared: “Looking to the present situation, in Germany and in Europe, I cannot see any other country in Europe where Jewish people can live more safely than in Germany.’’

‘’Once there was an anti-Semitic country, but today there is a country that acts against anti-Semitism,” he said.

He hailed the fact that Germany today has a rejuvenated Jewish community of more than 100,000 people half a century after the Holocaust, thanks to immigration from former Soviet countries.

Lammert announced that a two-day conference of national and European parliamentarians from up to 60 countries will look at the situation of ant-Semitism in Europe.