Many of the women had felt disconnected from their Jewish identities after marrying non-Jews and felt the program was an empowering return.
During the meeting, the participants raised issues such as the state of aliyah to Israel and difficulties that professionals in the medical fields from France encounter when trying to immigrate.
Habib called the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state “the biggest fake news of the 21st century” and “the fuel that drives all of the antisemites in the world.”
Touati is a candidate on behalf of the Sephardic ultra-orthodox Shas Party and as well as members of Likud.
The bombing, which took place on Oct. 3, 1980, was understood to be the first fatal antisemitic attack in France since the Holocaust.
An arrest warrant in the 1980 bombing that killed four people and wounded 46 was first issued for Diab, a Lebanese academic who lives in Canada, in 2008.
For the Diaspora, being Jewish means knowing what we owe to liberal democracy and the rule of law.
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