By Turgut Alp Boyraz
JERUSALEM
Thousands of Israelis on Tuesday took part in a mass funeral in West Jerusalem for four Jews killed during Friday's terrorist attack on a Paris supermarket.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, opposition leader Isaac Herzog and French Energy and Environment Minister Segolene Royal all attended the funeral in West Jerusalem's Givat Shaul cemetery.
The bodies of the four French Jews killed in the attack arrived in Israel early Tuesday.
Speaking at the funeral, Netanyahu said that the Paris attackers were "not only enemies of the Jewish people, [but] they are enemies of all mankind."
"[It's] time for the civilized world to uproot enemies in our midst," Netanyahu said, adding that the attack's victims had been "murdered solely for being Jewish in an attack of hatred by a despicable murderer."
Twelve people were killed last Wednesday in an attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Two days later, four hostages and a gunman were killed inside a kosher supermarket in Paris.
-'Europe must protect Jews'-
Rivlin, for his part, called for stepping up protection for Jews living in Europe.
"Regardless of what may be the sick motives of terrorists, it is beholden upon the leaders of Europe to act and commit to firm measures to return a sense of security and safety to the Jews of Europe," he said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, for his part, renewed his calls to French Jews to immigrate to the self-proclaimed Jewish state.
French Jews "should immigrate to Israel if they want security for themselves and their children," he crowed.
On Saturday, Netanyahu said an Israeli ministerial team would meet this week to discuss measures aimed at promoting Jewish immigration from France and Europe to Israel.
The Israeli premier was among scores of world leaders who participated in a massive "anti-terror" rally in Paris on Sunday.
On the same day, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that French President Francois Hollande had asked Netanyahu not to attend the planned march.
According to the paper, Netanyahu had initially acquiesced to the request, but later changed his mind after learning that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett both intended to travel to Paris for the event.
