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Spirit of Herzl: Central Jerusalem hotel with history, comics, and charm

Explore Jerusalem from the Spirit of Herzl Hotel, where Zionist comics line the halls and history meets comfort in a central location.

Welcoming guests.
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‘Dance, pig’: Man harasses young Jewish boys in France, orders them to ‘free Palestine’

 A police officer waits outside the courtroom at the courthouse in Paris, March 31, 2025.

Algerian nanny charged after allegedly poisoning French Jewish family’s food, drinks

 French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (illustration)

French gov't allows Israeli firms to participate in defense exhibition after alleged ban


French Jewish groups claim Eric Zemmour inappropriately sent campaign texts targeting Jewish voters

The messages went out the night of the first round of elections. Two left-leaning Jewish groups say they are filing a complaint to police over the messages.

 French far-right commentator Eric Zemmour, leader of far-right party "Reconquete!" and candidate for the 2022 French presidential election, and his companion and campaign advisor Sarah Knafo visit the 58th International Agriculture Fair (Salon de l'Agriculture) at the Porte de Versailles exhibition

French Jewish umbrella organization: Vote for Macron; block Le Pen

Umbrella organization for French Jewry, the Crif, put out an announcement that there needs to be a united Jewish vote to "prevent the far-right from gaining power."

Marine Le Pen, leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party and candidate for the 2022 French presidential election, gestures as she delivers a speech after partial results in the first round of the 2022 French presidential election are announced, in Paris, France, April

How did the French citizens in Israel vote for the presidential election in France?

Three conversations with French-Israelis who tell The Jerusalem Post about the difficult and complicated election

 People voting a the French school in HaNeviim Street in Jerusalem.

New play explores unease of French Jews in the face of antisemitism

Directed by Tony Award winner and two-time nominee David Cromer, the off-Broadway play began performances at Manhattan Theatre Club Jan. 11 and has extended to March 13th.

 Molly Ranson and Francis Benhamou star in “Prayer for the French Republic,” a new off-Broadway play at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Exhibition in Paris examines roles of diplomats during the Holocaust

How much did the diplomats know? What were their sources? Who took action to help the Jews?

 ANDRE KASPI and Catherine Nicault, curators of ‘Diplomats Facing the Shoah’ at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, visit their exposition prior to its official opening.

Majority of French Jews have been the victims of antisemitic acts - survey

Jews in France take to being less visibly Jewish to avoid antisemitism. *Jews and the general public closely agree on primary sources of antisemitism.

PROTESTORS GATHER outside the French Embassy in Tel Aviv on Sunday to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, who was murdered by an antisemitic assailant in her apartment in Paris in 2017.

French police arrest 16 teachers at Orthodox school for abusing students

At least 42 underage students from the yeshiva in a Paris suburb were placed at an undisclosed child welfare facility.

 The entrance to the Yeshivat Beth Yossef in Bussières, France.

French parliamentary report on the Sarah Halimi murder case reopens the wound it sought to heal

A parliamentary committee led by French Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib found that police officers arrived on the scene of the 2017 murder before it occurred but did not stop it.

Protesters gather in Jerusalem against the French ruling in the Sarah Halimi murder case, April 25, 2021.

French lawmaker says Éric Zemmour part of France's antisemitism problem

Zemmour has not announced a political run but is still polling among President Emmanuel Macron’s most serious challengers in this spring's presidential elections.

 Éric Zemmour in the salon du livre 2012.

Teenager arrested after waving knife in front of French Jewish school

The incident took place Thursday outside College/Lycee Juive de Lyon in Villeurbanne, a suburb of the eastern city.

 College Lycee Juive de Lyon