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Aviv Zonabend, a Jewish deputy mayor of the French city of Toulouse, on March 26, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 25, 2018, 5:18 pm
French deputy mayor says future of Jews in Europe is ‘hopeless’
After call for German Jews to stop wearing kippahs in cities, Aviv Zonabend, Jewish member of Toulouse council, says the advice should be followed throughout Europe
By Michael Bachner
French Israelis light candles in memory of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman murdered in her home in France in what police believe was an anti-Semitic attack, seen here during a gathering in Jerusalem on March 28, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
March 28, 2018, 10:29 pm
French Israelis memorialize murdered Holocaust survivor
Candlelight vigils for Mireille Knoll held in Jerusalem and Netanya as marches against anti-Semitism take place in France
By TOI staff
French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in May 2017. (Screenshot)
May 28, 2017, 8:10 am
Netanyahu endorses Jewish lawmaker for reelection in France
PM says Meyer Habib an 'engine' developing France-Israel relations who continuously looks out for interests of French olim
By TOI staff
Waiting outside the polling station at the French Consulate on Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, May 7, 2017. (Esther Kott / Times of Israel)
May 7, 2017, 7:54 pm
A continent away, French Israelis flock to polls to block Le Pen’s rise
Long lines at voting booths across Israel, as expats express concerns for future of France and of relatives who still live there
By PIERRE-SIMON ASSOULINE and DAHLIA PEREZ
MP Meyer Habib speaks at the National Assembly in Paris, November 28, 2014 (screen capture)
May 4, 2017, 3:05 am
French-Israeli settlers receive election notices addressed to ‘Palestinian territories’
Jewish MP blasts 'demeaning provocation' by Paris; some said to have boycotted presidential vote in protest
By TOI staff
A French national residing in Israel prepares to cast his vote for the first round of the French presidential election on April 23, 2017, at the French consulate in the coastal city of Netanya. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
April 24, 2017, 4:50 pm
French Israelis vote 60% for Fillon, 4% for Le Pen
Despite his disappointing show at home, voters in the Jewish state favor secularist candidate who vowed to fight anti-Semitism
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: New immigrants to Israel disembarking a plane in Tel Aviv, on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 29, 2016, 1:03 pm
Immigration to Israel slumps as French influx tapers off
Russian, Brazilian Jews arrive in greater numbers, while Ukrainian and American immigration down in 2016
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a Spanish Civil Guard policeman detaining a suspect in Madrid, Spain. February 17, 2016 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
March 29, 2016, 1:25 am
From Israel to Colombia, who’s laundering money in China
Criminal networks, including Israeli ones, increasingly turn to Chinese financial institutions to hide ill-gotten funds
By Erika Kinetz
Gilbert Chikli, 50, and his wife, Shirly Chikli, 31, pose at their home in Ashdod on March 28, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)
March 29, 2016, 12:05 am
How a French-Israeli grifter became a money-laundering pioneer in China
Convicted con man Gilbert Chikli, sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison by a French court last year but living openly in Ashdod, is credited with masterminding a fraud that has cost companies $1.8 billion. To get away with it, he became the first of many to look east
By AP
Hundreds of Israelis at a rally in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv in solidarity with Paris, November 14, 2015. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)
November 18, 2015, 1:41 am
Paris attacks leave French Israelis reeling, relieved to be out
Immigrants show solidarity, but glad to be in Israel amidst growing terror and anti-Semitism in France
By Ben Sales
November 16, 2015, 12:30 pm
Jittery French Jews urged ‘home,’ but some wonder if Israel can handle flood
With a massive immigration increase since 2013 -- and a potential 15,000 incoming next year -- French Jews lobby Jerusalem to keep its promises to them
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Altice group's Chairman Patrick Drahi poses for photographers at the Scopus Awards of the French Friends of the Hebrew University, in Paris, France on March 18, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus, File)
September 17, 2015, 11:23 am
French-Israeli media mogul buys US cable company for $17.7b
Telecom giant Altice to acquire New-York based Cablevision, deepening move into the American market
By AFP and TOI staff
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian listens to translation during a joint news conference with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the Pentagon, Monday, July 6, 2015. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
August 29, 2015, 6:49 pm
Israelis said conning Africans by posing as French minister
African leaders reportedly receive calls from people claiming to be Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, asking to wire funds to bail out 'kidnapped secret agents'
By TOI staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 11, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Matthieu Alexandre)
January 14, 2015, 6:49 pm
Netanyahu compares France to pre-Inquisition Spain
Participants in PM's closed Paris meeting with Jewish leaders say he was insulting and smug, decry his excessive reliance on parliamentarian Meyer Habib
By Elhanan Miller
Hundreds of French immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 16, 2014 (photo credit: Flash 90)
January 14, 2015, 3:48 am
A massive wave of French aliya? The ‘Boeing Aliya’ trend suggests not
Lack of adequate job prospects already means many immigrants only live in Israel on the weekends, commuting to their jobs in France during the week
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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