In Jerba, Tunisia today, five or six people - including four German tourists - were killed and 20 were wounded when a truck exploded at the historic Riba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Jerba. Tunisian authorities were quick to say that it was an accident, but the Israeli Foreign Ministry believes it was a terror attack. \"Our estimation, which is not based on hard evidence, but which is not baseless, is that it was a terror attack aimed at the synagogue,\" a senior Foreign Ministry source told Ha\'aretz. \"[The synagogue] is not located on a main road, it is an isolated place, and to get there you have to want to get there. There is a special road leading up to it.\" None of the 60 Jews who live in the local Jewish quarter were hurt.
Arutz-7\'s Shai Ben-Tekoa recalls that in 1985, \"after the IDF bombed PLO headquarters in Tunisia in response to the terrorist murder of three Israelis, local Tunisians took revenge by murdering several Jews in Jerba.\" Local Jewish officials said that it is now likely that the annual Lag BaOmer celebration, scheduled for three weeks from now and in which 5,000 Jews from Tunisia, France and even Israeli usually participate, would be called off.
In Paris, France, a bus carrying Jewish children to the Sinai School was stoned yesterday. One of the girls was hurt lightly in her face. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe sharply condemned the attack, one of many in a recent wave of anti-Semitic assaults in France. Israel\'s Interior Minister Eli Yeshai said yesterday that Israel had better prepare for an influx of French Jews to Israel.
Arutz-7\'s Shai Ben-Tekoa recalls that in 1985, \"after the IDF bombed PLO headquarters in Tunisia in response to the terrorist murder of three Israelis, local Tunisians took revenge by murdering several Jews in Jerba.\" Local Jewish officials said that it is now likely that the annual Lag BaOmer celebration, scheduled for three weeks from now and in which 5,000 Jews from Tunisia, France and even Israeli usually participate, would be called off.
In Paris, France, a bus carrying Jewish children to the Sinai School was stoned yesterday. One of the girls was hurt lightly in her face. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe sharply condemned the attack, one of many in a recent wave of anti-Semitic assaults in France. Israel\'s Interior Minister Eli Yeshai said yesterday that Israel had better prepare for an influx of French Jews to Israel.