Israeli students in Paris ‘we are prepared for this’

Several Israeli students in Paris on student exchange programs were drinking at a pub with French students when the terror attacks occurred on Friday

“After a meal we went to the pub, a few friends, when we suddenly got notifications on our phones on a series of explosions and suspicions that a multiple casualty attack took place,” Or Naor, a Hebrew University student living in Paris on student exchange tells Channel 2. “We immediately began receiving messages from our families checking that we were alright. At this stage we didn’t really know what it’s all about but little by little as details emerged we started realizing the scope of this disaster.”

Naor says the French friends took time to internalize it, get out of there and go back home, but that the Israelis “immediately went back to the apartments and watched the news to the late hours of the night. But we are well-drilled; this is the main difference from the French. People who live in Jerusalem know what terrorism means.

University classes were suspended for a day following the attacks. All campus events for the coming week were canceled, the Israeli students say.