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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Marseille

People gather with placards and a large Palestinian flag to take part in a 'March For Palestine' in London on October 14, 2023 (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)
October 26, 2023, 2:08 pm
Pro-Hamas sentiment shocks European Jews, rekindling fears about their future
The disgust felt by millions toward the terrorist group’s barbarity is overshadowed by angry street protests against Israel and soaring antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor
Netflix miniseries creator 'Transatlantic' creator Anna Winger (Courtesy)
April 17, 2023, 10:01 am
Not ‘Holocaust distortion’ but creativity, says creator of Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’
Anna Winger’s series is based on Varian Fry’s real-life rescue of thousands of European artists and intellectuals; critics warn of historical inaccuracies caused by dramatization
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This file photo taken on April 25, 2012, shows the "Vieux-Port" (Old Harbour) shows the buidings designed by French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986) and built between 1953 and 1960, in the southern city of Marseille. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)
January 26, 2023, 7:50 pm
Marseille determined to remember ‘forgotten’ WWII roundups of Jews
In 1943 Velodrome d’Hiver raids, more than 12,000 people, including 4,000 children, were rounded up in the French capital in less than two days
By Sandra Laffont and Coline DACLIN
Police arrest a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market in Marseille, France, March 5, 2021 (video screenshot)
March 5, 2021, 12:12 pm
Man wielding knife overpowered outside Jewish school, kosher store in France
School in Marseille locked down as security guards stop armed man trying to enter shop, hand him over to police; authorities boost security for city’s Jewish sites
By ToI Staff and AP
President of Marseille's Jewish community Michel Cohen Tenoudji, left, in his office at the Great Synagogue with a local Muslim leader, October 21, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
December 6, 2020, 9:16 am
Work, history and dialogue keep Jews, Muslims happy together in sunny Marseille
France’s diverse second city is home to the 3rd-largest Jewish population in Europe and 250,000 Muslims. Community president Michel Cohen Tenoudji says relations couldn’t be better
By Yaakov Schwartz
Marseille's mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin chairs a town council, on January 27, 2020 at Marseille city hall. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP)
February 26, 2020, 9:13 am
Marseille mayor signs letter calling Tel Aviv ‘ex-Palestine’
French Jewish group complains about letter to resident born in Israeli city; municipality says description carried over from official records
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Yellow vest protesters march during a demonstration on February 16, 2019, in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
March 4, 2019, 5:24 pm
French police hit with poo bombs at ‘yellow vest’ protests
Head of police union in Marseille says 3 officers were ‘soaked through’ after being struck by feces-filled bags, felt ‘deeply humiliated’
By AFP
A view of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France (CC-BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)
November 24, 2017, 10:58 pm
Archaeologists may have found a mikveh near Marseille
French researchers say cellar found two decades ago in the town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is potentially a medieval ritual Jewish bath
By JTA
The lights of the Eiffel Tower in Paris are switched off on October 2, 2017 in tribute to the victims of the attacks in Las Vegas and Marseille. (AFP Photo/Zakaria Abdelkafi)
October 3, 2017, 5:41 am
Eiffel Tower goes dark for Las Vegas victims
Gesture an ‘homage to the victims,’ says Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo
By AFP
Investigative police officers work by a body under a white sheet outside Marseille's main train station Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017 in Marseille, southern France. A man with a knife attacked people at the main train station, killing two women before soldiers fatally shot him, officials said. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
October 2, 2017, 12:19 pm
Marseille stabber was released from detention day before fatal attack
Terrorist who killed 2 women at a train station before being shot dead by police was held for suspected shoplifting
By Agencies
French police officers block access to Marseille's main train station, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. French police have warned people to avoid Marseille's main train station following a knife attack in which two people and the attacker were killed. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
October 2, 2017, 12:24 am
Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly Marseille attack
Stabbing spree comes days after apparent recording of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urging followers to strike enemies in the West
By AFP and ToI Staff
This file photo taken on March 25, 2012, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows France's Jewish scout placing flowers under a banner paying tribute to the victims of jihadist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher at the 'Ozar Hatorah' Jewish school. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)
October 1, 2017, 4:42 pm
Toulouse Jewish school attack ushered in era of terror for France
Since 2012 assault, France has endured a series of attacks and near-misses from Islamic extremists
By Lori Hinnant
A French police officer cordons off the access to Marseille's main train station Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017 in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
October 1, 2017, 4:33 pm
2 stabbed to death at Marseille train station
Knifeman reportedly shouts ‘Allahu akbar’ before murderous assault, is shot dead by soldiers patrolling nearby; police urge people to avoid the area
By Francois BECKER and Adam PLOWRIGHT
Marseilles, France (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY SA 3.0)
September 17, 2017, 5:28 pm
4 US tourists attacked with acid in Marseille
Two women injured in the face, one of whom may have damage to her eye; others suffer shock
Pupils sit in their classroom in the Francois Masson primary school on the first day of the new school year on September 4, 2017, in Marseille, southern France. (Boris Horvat/AFP)
September 8, 2017, 6:00 pm
French ex-principal: My school was not safe for Jews
Bernard Ravet, from Marseille, says he was horrified by violent Islamist verses circulating among students
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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