France’s Socialist Prime Minister Manual Valls says he understands French Jews’ fear amid heightened religious tension in the country after attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris last year.
As the commonly accepted figure for the size of the French Jewish community is 500,000, then Israel is about to be conquered by as many as 200,000 French Jews and Netanya would surpass Tel Aviv as the second-largest city in Israel.
French Jews living in America are furious over comments made by France’s ambassador to the US Gérard Araud when, in comments after the Paris terror attacks, he seemingly differentiated between Jewish and "ordinary" French citizens.