The weekly cabinet meeting opened Sunday morning with a moment of silence to commemorate the 11 victims of Saturday's massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
The prime minister began his remarks, immediately after the moment of silence, by expressing solidarity with the mourning of the Jewish community in Pittsburgh following the massacre.
"On behalf of the Government of Israel and on behalf of the people of Israel, I send our deepest condolences to the families who lost their loved ones. We all pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded," Netanyahu said.
"It is very difficult to overstate the horror of the murder of Jews who gather in a synagogue on Shabbat and were murdered only because they are Jews," said the prime minister. "Israel stands on the same front with the Pittsburgh Jewish community and the Jewish communities of the US, all communities, and the American people, against anti-Semitism and the revelation of this barbarism."
"We call on the entire world to unite in the fight against anti-Semitism everywhere. We mean the United States, for which this is the most serious anti-Semitic crime in its history, and we also mean Western Europe, where there is a tough struggle against new manifestations of anti-Semitism, as well as, of course, the old anti-Semitism and that which comes from radical Islam. On all these fronts we must stand up and fight back against this brutal fanaticism. It starts with the Jews but never ends with the Jews," Netanyahu said.