\"Pack your bags and come home - to Israel!\" This was the call issued by Interior Minister Eli Yeshai (Shas) to French Jews today, following the strong electoral showing by Jean-Marie Le Pen in the French national election yesterday. Yeshai added that European residents, particularly citizens of France, must not remain apathetic in the face of the electoral results and the alarming increase in anti-Semitism there.



When asked about this today, Le Pen said, \"This Israeli minister is continuing the tradition of all Zionists for the past 50 years in [trying] to have the Jews join them [in Israel]. Well, that\'s not my problem. I see all Jews... in France as my compatriots, providing they fulfill the obligations of all French citizens.\"



Today provided additional examples of the European attitude towards Israel and Jews: The Spanish Foreign Minister said that the murderers of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze\'evi will not be able to be extradited, as Israel demands, and should be tried instead in a neutral country… 135 Jewish cemetery gravestones were vandalized over the weekend in Bratislava, Slovakia... In Russia, too, two synagogues - one in the Ural Mountains and one near the Volga River - were desecrated with anti-Semitic slogans over the past few days…