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'If Israel falls, we fall': Fate of West tied to Israel, former French PM tells 'Post' - interview

"The stakes of the world... the fight against the regime of the Mullahs and its dangers, the links between Iran and Russia, the future of France and Europe is being decided here," he said.

France's Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls leaves after a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on September 3, 2025.
French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.

Algerian nanny imprisoned for poisoning French Jewish family

EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor at the Paris Mayors Summit on Antisemitism

EJC president warns of dangerous influence of social media in youth radicalization

A VIEW of Efrat: It’s worth reminding ourselves that aliyah is not a nostalgic story from the past but the very heartbeat of Zionism today, the writer affirms.

Aliyah continues to be a driving force behind Israeli communities - opinion


On This Day: The final expulsion of Jews from France

On September 17, 1394, King Charles VI of France ordered that all Jewish people be expelled from the kingdom. 

 Medieval French castle

Jewish doctors allegedly targeted by anti-vaccine antisemites in France

A letter sent to the French Interior Minister from the Simon Wiesenthal Center argued that anti-vaccination rhetoric is closely linked to antisemitism.

Aerial view of Paris, France and the Eiffel Tower

Holocaust survivor's resistance brought him to Israel

Eliezer Lev Tzion's story starts in Berlin, where his journalist father was arrested in 1933, and continues to Neve Ilan, with wars, resistance and rehabilitation in between.

Grenoble, 1943. Dressed in his ‘compagnon de France’ uniform, Eliezer Lewinsohn is standing with a French woman Resistance fighter, a forbidden photograph courtesy

160 French olim arrive in Israel on special flight

Aliyah from France is up 137% in 2021 after the pandemic drastically reduced the number of new immigrants to Israel last year.

New children olim from France departing the airplane in Israel

French Jews on why they protest over Sarah Halimi, in their own words

Following the protests, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency spoke to multiple French Jews, asking them in interviews to share their thoughts and impressions from the situation on the ground.

Sarah Halimi was brutally murdered in her Paris home by Kobili Traore, who was not prosecuted because lawyers attributed his actions to a “massive psychotic episode” caused by smoking marijuana.

Jews in Marine Le Pen's party make blacklist of candidates with neo-Nazi ties

‘Marine Le Pen doesn’t want her party associated with Jews’

Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party, delivers a speech during a debate on migration at the National Assembly in Paris, France, October 7, 2019.

New project to train religious Olim from France for employment

The program will work to find tailor-made jobs for new immigrants from France.

French olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 10, 2017

Miss France runner-up attacked online for saying her father is Israeli

"Uncle Hitler forgot to exterminate you Miss Provence," one wrote on Twitter.

Miss Provence April Benayoum

100-year-old French man passes away one day after making aliyah

Meir Halimi's last will was to make Aliyah and to spend his last years in Israel.

Meir Halimi, his son, and Jewish Agency French Director Arie Abitbol

Enrico Macias will leave France for Israel if Le Pen becomes president

Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party, wrote on Twitter on Sunday that Macias’ pledge is “a good additional reason” to vote for her, adding a winking emoji.

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