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Netanyahu to Join World Leaders at Paris Rally Sunday

by TheTower.org Staff |

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett will fly to France tomorrow to attend a rally in memory of the seventeen victims of terror last week in Paris.

On Wednesday, 12 people were killed in a terror attack targeting satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The following day a policewoman was killed. On Friday four Jewish men were killed as they were taken hostage in a kosher supermarket.

Ynet reports:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett will all leave for France on Sunday morning to attend a “silent march” against terrorism, in memory of the 17 victims of several terror attacks in the French capital over the past few days. …

Following the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday, which claimed the lives of four people, Netanyahu called French President Francois Hollande, telling him: “The entire people of Israel are with you. Our hearts are with the families of the victims. Israel offers any assistance that France needs.”

The Times of Israel reports that the four men killed Friday will likely be buried in Israel.

Arrangements for the funerals of the four — Yoav Hattab, 21, Philippe Braham, in his 40s, Yohan Cohen, 20, and Francois-Michel Saada, in his 60s — are being coordinated by the French Jewish CRIF umbrella group and the Israeli foreign ministry.

One of the four died when trying to grab a weapon and thwart Amedy Coulibaly, who had threatened to kill a three-year-old hostage. Coulibaly shot him at close range in the head.

Earlier in the week Netanyahu expressed his condolences to France’s President Francois Hollande after the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

[Photo: AFP / YouTube ]

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