Marseille teacher stabbed in face by IS sympathizers, says fellow rabbi

Three people believed to be Islamic State supporters who attacked a Jewish teacher in the southern French city of Marseille on Wednesday evening stabbed him in the face, arms and legs, according to a colleague of the victim. The anti-Semitic attack on Rabbi Tzion Saadoun, 56, a Chabad emissary and Judaic-studies teacher at a local Jewish school, occurred around 8:00 p.m. local time, according to police. Saadoun, a bearded, observant Jew, was wearing a skullcap, and was attacked outside his home, a short distance from the school and synagogue complex where he works, a source close to the investigation said. Saadoun “lives on the border between the Jewish neighborhood and the Arab neighborhood [in Marseille],” a fellow emissary, Rabbi Eliyahu Altab, told Chabad.org. “Right outside his home, he was ambushed by three people. He was stabbed on his face, body, arms and legs. A car drove by, and the attackers got scared and fled.”


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