TEL AVIV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th January, 2019) Anti-Semitic attacks in 2018 left 13 Jews killed around the world, which is the largest number of victims in such incidents over the past 25 years, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett said on Sunday.
Bennett announced the figures while presenting an annual report of the Diaspora Ministry at a governmental meeting and noted that the world was undergoing a record upsurge in anti-Semitic attitudes.
"This is the year that witnessed the largest number of Jews killed in anti-Semitic attacks since the 1990s," Bennett said, as quoted by the ministry's press service.
Thirteen Jews were killed in three anti-Semitic attacks over the past year. A major assault took place in October in a synagogue in Pittsburgh in the northeastern US state of Pennsylvania, as a result of which 11 members of a local Jewish community were killed. Two other cases are the murders of a 85-year-old Jewish woman in the French capital of Paris and a 19-year-old student in California.
The ministry noted that last year was the deadliest for the diaspora since 1994, when a bombing at a building of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires killed 85 people.
