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Friday, June 26, 2015
Elkin urges French Jews to leave after factory beheading
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn Israeli minister is urging French Jews to flee to Israel after an Islamist attack on a gas factory near Lyon where the severed head of a local businessman was pinned to the gates.
“I call on the Jews of France – come home! Anti-Semitism is rising, terror is increasing,” said Immigration Minister Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
“We are prepared to receive with open arms the Jews of France,” he adds in a post on Facebook.
“This is a national mission of the highest priority,” he adds.
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