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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: It's time for French Jews—and Jews in the Diaspora—to come live in Israel, says MK Sharren Haskel
Description: A few days ago, Israeli Knesset member Sharren Haskel, who was born in Canada, made headlines when she said her 88-year-old grandmother, who lives outside of Paris, had been badly beaten by two Arab suspects who noticed the visibly Jewish elderly woman wearing a Star of David necklace. The alleged attack is part of a series of antisemitic violence against French Jews that has sprung up since Oct. 7—and spiked even higher in the run-up to the recent French election.
Over the weekend, early ballot results proved a surge in popularity for the federal far-right party with Ho...