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is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide”.
Meanwhile, a new report
in January says Jews from Europe emigrated to Israel in record numbers in 2015; the leading cause being the rise in anti-Semitic attacks.
The Jewish Agency, a non-profit organisation
which works with the Israeli government and acts as
a link to Jews around the world, reported that 9,880 western European Jews emigrated to Israel in
2015 – the highest annual number ever. Around 7,900 of those came from France.
30 Israelis killed;
301 injured in more than four months of terror in Israel
More than four-and-a-half months into the terror wave, Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service has summarised some of the period’s key statistics.
Since the 13 September until 1 February, 30 Israelis have been killed and 301 have been wounded.
MDA emergency teams treated victims in 91 rock throwing incidents, 83 stabbing incidents, 22 vehicle ramming attacks, and 15 shootings.
On 1 January, a terrorist who went on a shooting rampage in Tel Aviv killed three Israelis.
On 17 January, Dafna Meir, a married mother of four children and two foster childen, was
stabbed to death by a terrorist just outside her home in Otniel.
On 25 January, two Palestinian terrorists stabbed two Israeli women and threw pipe bombs at a grocery store in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon on Monday night. One of the victims of the attack, Shlomit Krigman, a 23-year old woman from Shadmot Mehola in the Jordan Valley, died from her wounds.
On 3 February, a female Border Police officer died of her wounds after a shooting attack near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. According to officials, 19 year-old Hadar Cohen and a wounded colleague prevented a “massive terror attack”.
Pictures (from top to bottom)
Dafna Meir (38, pictured with husband), Hadar Cohen (19), Shlomit Krigman (23), Hadar Buchris (21), Tuvia Yanai Weissman (21, pictured with wife and daughter)
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