Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to French and European Jews Saturday.
“To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe,Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the state of Israel is your home,” he tweeted. “I’ve decided to fly to France tomorrow to express solidarity with the Jewish community, the French people and the free world countries.”
France’s Jews had already been fleeing the nation before this week’s Charlie Hebdo attacks, citing the nation’s bleak economic outlook and the growth of militant Islam and the growing French far-right. The nation still boasts the world’s third largest Jewish population, according to the Associated Press.
A kosher grocery in Paris was a scene of horror this week, as a terrorists took hostages after killing a French police officer. Four hostages were killed before the terrorist was eliminated by police.
