French President Emmanuel Macron receives members of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) Usually, Crif invites presidents to an annual dinner, but for his 80th birthday, the president invited the council. France has experienced a resurgence of anti-Semitic acts since the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7 and the start of bombings on the Gaza Strip.
The number of verbal or physical attacks against Jewish or supposed Jewish people has increased fourfold: 1,676 committed against 436 in 2022.