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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

Roger Cukierman

A member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, which killed 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)
May 15, 2016, 1:38 am
French Jews oppose Cannes film defending Munich terrorists
‘Munich: A Palestinian Story’ by director Nasri Hajjaj claims German police, not Palestinian hostage-takers, killed Israeli athletes at 1972 Olympics
By JTA
The Western Wall (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)
April 22, 2016, 11:58 pm
French chief rabbi: Paris ‘ignored Jewish ties to Jerusalem’ in UNESCO vote
Haim Korsia slams his country’s backing for resolution that refers to Temple Mount, Western Wall plaza by Arabic names
By JTA
Illustrative: People wave Israeli flags as they take part in a demonstration supporting Israel in Marseille, southeastern France, on July 27, 2014. (AFP/Boris Horvat)
April 5, 2016, 12:01 am
French Jews protest planned closure of Israel’s Marseille consulate
Move would force members of Europe’s third-largest Jewish community to travel hundreds of miles to nearest mission, activists fume
By Raphael Ahren
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech on January 9, 2016 near the Hyper Cacher (AFP/POOL/JACQUES DEMARTHON)
January 19, 2016, 1:08 am
French PM: Terror attacks in France, Israel show we are ‘in world war’
Manuel Valls says Paris ’employing all measures’ to protect its Jews in face of jihadist terrorism worldwide
By JTA
Opening image on the In Between Wars exhibit website
December 28, 2015, 2:48 pm
Paris Jewish leader calls to block exhibit that ‘glorifies Palestinian terrorism’
Doctors without Borders show omits Hamas attacks on civilians, features poster of a terrorist who died attacking Israelis
By JTA
French righ-wing party UMP national delegate Pierre Lelouche (right) and French Jewish Institutions Representative Council (Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France - CRIF) President Roger Cukierman (2nd from right) and French junior minister for Parliamentary Relations Jean-Marie Le Guen (2nd from left) attend a ceremony for the victims of a series of deadly attacks at the Grande synagogue de la Victoire on November 15, 2015. (AFP / Loic Venance)
November 17, 2015, 9:49 pm
French government doing its utmost to protect Jews, says leader
In France’s war against terror, the Jewish community works closely with authorities to secure its institutions, says Roger Cukierman
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Roger (L) and Edouard Cukierman at the Go4Israel conference, October 26, 1015 (Courtesy)
November 11, 2015, 6:19 pm
With one hand on a suitcase, French Jews seek an Israel connection
CRIF head says French Jews can be a bridge between Europe, Israel and Asia, helping to grow Israel’s high-tech economy
By David Shamah
Police stand guard outside the kosher supermarket in Paris in July 2015, where four Jews were murdered six months earlier in a hostage siege by an Islamist gunman. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
July 11, 2015, 4:22 am
Fear and defiance in Paris, 6 months after kosher market attack
Israel expects 8,000 French Jews to immigrate this year; those who remain wonder how long they can stand perceived latent anti-Semitism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Roger Cukierman, president of the umbrella group for France’s Jewish organizations (photo credit: courtesy World Jewish Congress/JTA)
February 25, 2015, 3:35 am
French Jewish leader ripped for defending far-right’s Le Pen
CRIF head Roger Cukierman said National Front chief can’t be ‘faulted personally’ for anti-Semitism
By JTA
French President Francois Hollande, right, attends the 30th annual dinner held by the French Jewish Institutions Representative Council (Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France, CRIF) next to French Parliament President Claude Bartolone, left, in Paris, France, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, pool)
February 24, 2015, 2:49 am
Hollande: No place for anti-Semites in France
At Jewish community dinner boycotted by Muslim leaders, French president promises protection for religious institutions
By Sylvie Corbet
Roger Cukierman, president of the umbrella group for France’s Jewish organizations (photo credit: courtesy World Jewish Congress/JTA)
January 17, 2015, 2:43 am
Rampant anti-Semitism a major aliyah factor, French Jewish leader says
President of Jewish communities in France says violence towards Jews a contributing factor to immigration to Israel
By JTA
Police officers stand in front of a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, on January 10, 2015 a day after four people were killed at the Jewish supermarket by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly. (AFP/Kenzo Tribouillard)
January 11, 2015, 1:16 pm
French army may protect Jewish sites, community leader says
Jewish group decries Israeli government’s ‘Pavlovian’ calls for emigration; kosher market victims to be buried in Jerusalem
By Marissa Newman and AFP
Women light candles to commemorate the victims killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French Embassy in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)
January 9, 2015, 12:14 am
Now is the time for fraternité, says France’s chief rabbi
But some French Jews wonder why the same brotherly embrace wasn’t extended to them after numerous attacks
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (YouTube screenshot)
January 5, 2015, 5:26 pm
Founder of French anti-Semitism watchdog to move to Israel
Sammy Ghozlan says his immigration is ‘a message,’ warns that ‘leaving is better than running away’
By JTA
December 29, 2014, 2:05 pm
Paris suburb honors jailed Palestinian leader
Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned for terror activity, named as honorary citizen of Aubervilliers
By JTA
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