British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has pledged $17 million to protect Jewish schools, colleges, nurseries and synagogues in Britain, she announced Nov. 30 at a UK-Israel conference in Parliament, the London-based Telegraph reported.
Rudd said that she decided to fund guards for all Jewish institutions after receiving 924 reports of anti-Semitic incidents, including 86 violent assaults, last year.
“Let me be clear. Any attack of that kind is one attack too many. Sadly the Jewish community knows all too well what it’s like to live with the threat from terrorism and hate crime,” Rudd said. — jta