Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed in an attack
outside Copenhagen's main synagogue.
"Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption
of mass immigration from Europe," Netanyahu said in a statement,
repeating a similar call made after attacks by Islamic extremists in
Paris last month that killed 17 people, including four Jews.
Two police officers were also wounded in Sunday's attack, one of two
fatal shootings in the normally peaceful Danish capital on the
weekend.
In the first attack on Saturday a 55-year-old man was killed at a
panel discussion about Islam and free speech attended by a Swedish
cartoonist behind controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
"Extremist Islamic terrorism has struck Europe again... Jews have been
murdered again on European soil only because they were Jews,"
Netanyahu said in the statement.
The Israeli prime minister said his government was to adopt a $45
million (39.5 million euro) plan "to encourage the absorption of
immigrants from France, Belgium and Ukraine".
"To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world I say that Israel
is waiting for you with open arms," Netanyahu said.
He had made a similar call after three days of bloodshed in Paris that
started with the January 7 attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
where 12 people were gunned down, followed the next day by the
shooting death of a policewoman just outside the city.
On January 9, the gunman who killed the policewoman took hostages at a
kosher supermarket in Paris. He killed four Jewish hostages before
police shot him dead when they raided the store.
The bodies of the four were later flown to Israel where they were buried.
Officials in Copenhagen described the weekend attacks as an act of
terror and said the man believed to be behind the shootings was shot
dead after opening fire on police at a rail station.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sent condolences to Danish
counterpart Martin Lidegaard over the attacks, telling him Israel
"appreciates Denmark's cooperation in maintaining the security of
Israelis and Jews in Denmark."
A statement from the foreign ministry quoted Lieberman as telling
Lidegaard that Israel was "ready for any cooperation required on this
issue".
--Vanguard
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