Photo Credit: Official White House photo by Pete Souza
The flag of France, flown during a White House ceremony.

The David Ben Ichay Synagogue in Paris was his by a bullet late Monday evening. The bullet went through a closed window and just missed hitting the rabbi and his assistant in their office.

The attack happened around 9:30PM.

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French police confirmed the attack on the synagogue on rue Andre-Danjon, in Paris’s 19th district. The police suspect two gunmen were involved, but their identity is unknown.

France and France’s Jewish community have seen a severe escalation in Islamic and antisemitic attacks as of late.

This past week there were two Islamic run-over attacks, last month a Jewish family was violently attacked in their home.

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