Major Attacks Against Synagogues Around the Globe

A synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh on Saturday, which left 11 people dead, is “likely the deadliest” such attack in US history, an American civil rights group said. Here is a list of major attacks on synagogues around the world over recent years, and of attacks on other places of Jewish community life. Tunisia On April 11, 2002, 21 people died in a suicide attack on the Ghriba synagogue, on the island of Djerba, in the south of the country. Among the dead were 14 Germans, five...

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