French man killed in suspected antisemitic attack to be buried in Israel

31 August 2022, 5:42 pm

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Eyal Haddad, a Tunisian-Israeli Jewish man who was killed by his neighbor in France in August 2022. (Courtesy)

A Jewish man killed in France in a suspected antisemitic attack will be buried in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba tonight, says Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.

Eyal Haddad, 34, was killed by his Muslim roommate, who told police he committed the crime because of 100 euros he was owed and because the victim was Jewish.

Haddad, originally from Djerba, Tunisia, had family in Beersheba and was an Israeli citizen.

Shai calls on France to take strong action against mounting antisemitism.

“I call on the authority in France to bring the killer to justice and impose the most severe sentence,” says Shai, noting that a “number of horrific antisemitic attacks have been carried out against France’s Jews in recent months.”