France Jews

Trial begins against 55 year old murderer who threw 89 year old Jewish neighbour off Lyon balcony

While the defendant, Rachid Kheniche, denies antisemitic motivation, he has so far been charged with aggravated murder because of the victim's religion.

A police officer wearing a bulletproof vest with a plate carrier marked POLICE stands in Rillieux la Pape in Lyon in France on November 10 2025.
France's Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls leaves after a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on September 3, 2025.

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

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


On This Day: French Jews given full rights under law

On September 27, 1791, the Loi relative aux Juifs was passed, granting Jews full rights in France. The move was ratified on November 13. 1791.

View of Paris, France and the Eiffel Tower

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