Members of the Israeli parliament’s immigration, absorption and diaspora affairs committee met Monday several European diplomats to discuss the worrying situation of Jewish communities in Europe and rising anti-Semitism.
A pre-season friendly game between Israeli football team Maccabi Haifa and French club of Lille had to be stopped after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the pitch in Austria.
Franco-Algerian jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of shooting four people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May, is to be extradited from France to Belgium, according to a ruling by the French Supreme Court.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) has urged Italy to refuse the accreditation of the new Hungarian ambassador to Rome, Peter Szentmihalyi Szabo, a far-right publicist known for his anti-Semitic writings.
The leader of a European Jewish group asked new European Parliament Vice-President Dimitrios Papadimoulis, from Greece, his support in the fight against rising anti-Semitism in Europe, during a meeting Tuesday in Brussels.
The Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in which unidentified extremists threw stones at his home, yelled hatred and racial slurs against Jews before disappearing.
