Netanyahu thanks Trump for condemning anti-Semitism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks US President Donald Trump for condemning a rise anti-Semitic attacks across the US.

In the opening to his first joint address to Congress on Tuesday, Trump described the recurrent bomb threats to Jewish institutions and desecration of Jewish cemeteries as a reminder “of our nation’s path toward civil rights and the work that remains.”

In a pre-recorded message to the Jewish People Policy Institute’s annual conference, Netanyahu says he appreciates what Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have done so far to help combat anti-Semitism and hopes other world leaders will do the same.

Close to a hundred Jewish institutions have been targeted with bomb threats since the beginning of the year.

In the last week, hundreds of Jewish tombstones in Pennsylvania and Missouri have been vandalized and numerous Jewish institutions have received bomb threats, including 29 on Monday alone — the fifth wave of such scares since January.