This week's deadly terrorist attacks have again set off a competition between the French and Israeli governments to reassure and secure the affection of France's increasingly nervous Jewish population.
Not for the first time, Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used an attack by Islamic terrorists in France to urge the country's Jews to relocate.
"To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the state of Israel is your home," he said in a state
Responding from outside the Jewish supermarket in Paris where four hostages were murdered on Friday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls sought to counter Netanyahu's words.
"France, without its Jews, is not France," he said.
"The Jews of France, for several years, have been frightened," he added, before trying to reassure them that "today, we are all Charlie, all police officers, all the Jews of France."
Indeed, a spate of recent and violent anti-Semitic incidents had already left France's Jewish community - the third largest in the world at 500,000-600,000 - on edge.
President Francois Hollande met leaders of the French Jewish community at the Elysee Palace on Sunday morning where he vowed to protect Jewish schools and synagogues with the army if necessary."
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