Israel warns: Europe flooded with hundreds of jihadists planning to strike

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 06 April 2016

Hezbollah said building missile base in Syria, to strike at Israel – Times of Israel

06 Apr 2016 Satellite images show villages razed in area; reports suggest fortified site may house armed Iranian missiles for use against Jewish state. READ MORE »

Israel warns: Europe flooded with hundreds of jihadists planning to strike – Jerusalem Post

06 Apr 2016 Jihadists in Europe are stockpiling weapons and knowledge that they obtained through fighting in Syria, as well as extremist ideology, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned. READ MORE »

Anti-Semitic incidents in Austria up more than 80 percent – JTA

06 Apr 2016 Austrian Forum Against Anti-Semitism says 465 incidents were recorded during 2015, over 200 of them being Internet postings hostile to Jews. READ MORE »

Controversial Gurlitt art collection going on display in museums in Germany, Switzerland – JTA

06 Apr 2016 The aim of the exhibition is to help clear up provenance questions in the collection of the late Cornelius Gurlitt of Munich, according to the Bundeskunsthalle museum in Bonn, Germany, and the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland. READ MORE »

Dame Helen Mirren to host ‘Jewish Nobel prize’ ceremony in Jerusalem – Jewish Chronicle

06 Apr 2016 Genesis Prize Foundation Chairman Stan Polovets hailed Dame Helen as “an outspoken support of Israel”. READ MORE »

Czechs to up security of ‘threatened’ Jewish institutions – Times of Israel

06 Apr 2016 New official position created to handle coordination between the community and the government. READ MORE »