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Settlers who raided a Palestinian village gather on the balcony of a building under construction in the West Bank's Qusra, August 29, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
August 30, 2026, 6:45 pm
Still no arrests over settler attack on Qusra, though some suspects are identifiable
EU envoy visits scene of latest assault on Palestinian village, weeks after extremist settlers besieged it; Foreign Press Association slams attack on reporters, calls for action
By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Palestinian police march during a training session with members of the European Union, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 16, 2014. (Abbas Momani / AFP)
December 2, 2025, 4:30 am
Egypt and EU stepping up preparations to dispatch Palestinian police force to Gaza
Diplomats push back at claim Hamas members to be part of new body, as Cairo trains thousands of recruits and Brussels looks to join effort, possibly influence postwar Strip
By Nava Freiberg
French MP Meyer Habib (screen capture Meyer Habib/YouTube)
June 10, 2013, 4:37 pm
Jewish leader wins seat in French parliament
Meyer Habib to represent southern Europe, Israel, in Paris’s National Assembly
By Aaron Kalman
Valerie Hoffenberg, center, next to prominent UMP politicians Claude Goasguen, left, and Jean-François Copé (photo credit: DR)
May 27, 2013, 6:01 pm
Opposition candidate wins 1st round of regional vote for French parliament
The UMP’s Valérie Hoffenberg will now face off against CRIF vice president Meyer Habib in a June 9 run-off ballot
By Raphael Ahren
French nationals in Israel cast ballots at their consulate in Tel Aviv for the presidential elections, April 2012 (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
May 22, 2013, 1:12 pm
For Franco-Israelis, a chance to elect their own ‘congressman’
This Sunday, 65,000 expats can choose a member of parliament to represent their interests at the National Assembly in Paris. Passions are high among the candidates; less so among the voters
By Raphael Ahren
French physicist Serge Haroche in Paris. Haroche and American David Wineland share the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. (photo credit: AP/CNRS/Christophe Lebedinsky)
October 29, 2012, 7:22 am
French-Jewish Nobel laureate: I never saw an anti-Israel bias in academia
Serge Haroche, honored this month for work in quantum physics, has no plans to meet with PM or president during Israel visit
By Raphael Ahren
MK Danny Danon, left, and French Ambassador Christophe Bigot discuss anti-Semitism in the Knesset (photo credit: courtesy)
June 27, 2012, 9:35 pm
Anti-Semitism in France spiked after Toulouse, now decreased again
While anxiety remains, Knesset told, French Jews are in no rush to make aliyah
By Raphael Ahren
Jerusalem residents pause during a two-minute siren in memory of victims of the Holocaust on Thursday (photo by: Avishag Shar Yashuv/Flash90)
April 19, 2012, 9:57 am
Israel remembers the six million Jewish Holocaust victims
Remembrance Day marked with two minutes of silence; ceremonies taking place across the country
By Aaron Kalman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Eva Sandler, wife of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and mother of Arieh and Gabriel, the victims of Monday's shooting in Toulouse. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)
March 22, 2012, 7:19 pm
Relief, but no sense of justice, for Toulouse families after killer’s death
Relatives in Israel speak of mixed emotions at fatal end to siege. Mass memorial takes place in Tel Aviv
By Ilan Ben Zion and Stuart Winer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Eva Sandler, wife of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and mother of Arieh and Gabriel, the victims of Monday's shooting in Toulouse. March 22, 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)
March 22, 2012, 2:31 pm
Netanyahu visits families of Toulouse victims
PM: ‘I have seen the depths of grief of a young mother’
By Stuart Winer
France’s ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot, with MK Danny Danon, in the Knesset in January. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
March 20, 2012, 1:13 pm
French envoy rejects EU chief’s equation of Toulouse deaths with loss of young lives in Gaza
Christophe Bigot, in Knesset, calls killings an attack on French-Israeli values
By Stuart Winer
Ruined ruins in Avdat in 2009 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
March 20, 2012, 11:43 am
Crying out in Toulouse
The shooting attack on a Jewish school in the French town dominates most papers, though other stories slip in as well
By Joshua Davidovich
French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks in front of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, alongside France's Education Minister Luc Chatel, second from left, France's Jewish central Consistory Joel Mergui, second from right and Pierre Cohen, mayor of Toulouse, right (photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Cabanis, Pool)
March 20, 2012, 11:27 am
In letter to Netanyahu, Sarkozy vows to punish Toulouse killer
French students hold minute of silence; four bodies being flown to Israel for burial tomorrow; after dispute over costs, Israel will use funds for terror victims to pay for funerals
By Gabe Fisher
French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot at the Knesset. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
March 19, 2012, 4:22 pm
French ambassador: School shooting a ‘crime against humanity’
Christophe Bigot condemns attack, but says that calls for mass French aliya are misplaced
By Raphael Ahren
People outside the school after the shooting (screen capture, France 24)
March 19, 2012, 2:36 pm
After attack, MK calls on Jews to leave France
Ya’akov Katz says Jews’ fate cannot be left in hands of world leaders
By Aaron Kalman
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