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Victim of Violent Antisemitic Attack in France Moves to Israel, Joins Elite IDF Combat Unit
by Ruthie Blum
February 14, 2016

A victim of a violent antisemitic attack in France — who subsequently moved to Israel — was recruited into the elite IDF infantry brigade, Givati, last week, Israel Hayom reported on Sunday. Jonathan Weinberg, a French Jew who was attacked in Versailles in 2005 at the age of 13, told the media outlet about his ordeal. “I came back from synagogue wearing a kippah and a group of eight youths jumped me, stabbed me in the stomach, beat me in the head while shouting ‘Jewish son of a bitch’ and other antisemitic slurs,” recounted Weinberg, who spent a month in the hospital in serious condition. “I was unconscious and on a respirator, and it was really tough. I was in shock from what had happened,” he said, according to Israel Hayom, which quoted the now 24-year-old saying that, at the time, he realized, “In a situation like that of brutality against Jews for being Jews, France was no place for me.” READ MORE