Paris news

Major cities cancel NYE events over security concerns - what are they?

New Year’s Eve celebrations were canceled or restricted in several major cities amid terror threats, with authorities citing crowd risks and recent attack warnings.

 The "family fireworks”, also known as the Country fireworks displayed three hours before midnight every year ahead of the main show at midnight, fill the sky over the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney on New Year's Eve on December 31, 2025 in Sydney, Australia.
 The Empire State Building will shine with orange light following the Bibas family funeral.

Empire State Building, other int'l landmarks light up orange in honor of Bibas family

 The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

Drunk American tourists break into Eiffel Tower, get stuck and fall asleep

 Mabrouk is located near Le Marais, the historically Jewish district of Paris.

In Paris, Jewish childhood friends open restaurant serving Tunisian couscous


Stunned for a day, Parisians return to square in show of solidarity

"Yesterday we were in shock and paralyzed, today we jolted back into motion."

People hold hands to form a human solidarity chain at Place de la Republique near the site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, November 15, 2015.

Day after attacks, French Muslims fear backlash: 'Better to be mistaken for a Jew'

"The way people look at us will change again, and not for the better ... Sometimes it's preferable to be mistaken for a Jew and not a Muslim because then there are fewer problems."

A woman sits by a poster which reads "Solidarity with Paris" in Nice, France, November 15, 2015, after a series of deadly shootings in Paris on Friday.

Tzipi Livni for Jpost: Not only shared pain with France – a shared battlefield

Israel is a natural partner in this fight; our country has always been on the side of the free world in the war against terrorism.

Tzipi Livni

What can be learned from Paris’s black Friday the 13th

The terrorists who executed the attacks Friday night might have been part of a sleeper cell of European Islamist “foreign fighters” who returned from Syria and Iraq and maintained contact with ISIS.

Rescue service personnel working outside a restaurant following shooting incidents in Paris, France, November 13, 2015

France's 9/11

We join with the international community in condemning terrorism in the strongest possible terms and extend our deep condolences to the French people.

Rabin Square lit to honor of France after Paris terror attack in country's colors

French Jews call for war on Jihadism as terror engulfs Paris

Concert hall may have been targeted because of Jewish connections.

A general view of the scene that shows the covered bodies outside a restaurant following a shooting incident in Paris, France, November 13, 2015

French PM calls hatred of Jews 'insufferable', pledges 107 mil Euro against anti-Semitism

French leaders had taken a more hardline tone regarding the vulnerability of their Jewish population. Valls had been outspoken in particular, telling Jewish citizens that "France without Jews is not France."

FRENCH PRIME MINISTER Manuel Valls

Obama ignites social media by calling Paris kosher deli attack 'random'

“If a guy goes into a kosher market and starts shooting it up, he’s not looking for Buddhists, is he?” the reporter asked State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki.

US President Barack Obama's comment on the Paris kosher market attack raised eyebrows on social media

BBC to investigate presenter’s Israel questions at Paris protest march

MP apologizes for comparing reported nuclear submarine plans to Auschwitz.

A member of the French GIPN intervention police forces secures a neighborhood in Corcy, northeast of Paris