Europe

The French Consulate in Jerusalem is helping the NGO Breaking the Silence wage a “demonization campaign” against Israel, undermining the Jewish state’s sovereignty and threatening its democracy, Gerald Steinberg, president of the watchdog group NGO Monitor, wrote Thursday in The Times of Israel. According to Steinberg, in 2015 the French...

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A record number of western European Jews are immigrating to Israel as a result of a spike in anti-Semitic attacks, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Citing the Jewish Agency, the AP wrote that 9,880 western European Jews immigrated to Israel in the last year, with some 8,000 of them coming...

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Observing that most Cypriots view Israel as a small country “fighting for survival,” Averof Neofytou, the leader of Cyprus’ center-right ruling party, said that his nation now appreciates the threats the Jewish state faces, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. While Cyprus has long been one of the most hostile European nations towards Israel, Neofytou said that in...

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An IsraAid delegation is being hailed for the relief it’s extending to residents of Yorkshire county in northern England, which suffered severe flooding at the end of December, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Wednesday. The volunteers– Navonel Glick, Mickey Noam-Alon, Yuval Statman, and Gilad Lavi– have been helping rebuild destroyed homes...

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Spain’s Supreme Court awarded Israel’s Ariel University over $100,000 in damages after it was illegally excluded from a scientific competition by Spain’s Housing Ministry, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. The landmark ruling marks the end of a case that began after the university was blocked in...

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One year after the terror attack at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the publication’s editor wrote in a commemorative issue that while the massacre led to global shock and a wide-ranging debate on free speech and religion, no one seemed surprised that jihadists also killed four people at a kosher grocery store. “We are so used...

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