French soldiers were attacked in February while protecting a building that housed a Jewish community center, a Jewish organization and a Jewish radio station, “Radio Shalom,” in the southern city of Nice,
An annual study published by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry showed the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2014 occurred in France, and higher than that in 2013.
According to the report, there was a 38 percent increase in violent anti-Semitic incidents in 2014 over the previous year, with 766 incidents with and without weapons reported.
In France, there were 164 incidents in 2014, as compared to 141 in 2013.