Israel’s political leadership has discussed ways of stopping Iran through coordinated European efforts with a high-level delegation of European Jewish leaders headed by the president of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), Moshe Kantor. Other participants included the president of the French Jewish community (CRIF), Richard Prasquier, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, the chief rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, and Dr. Oded Eran, director of the Jerusalem office of the World Jewish Congress. s
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni stressed the urgency of the subject and noted that, as the central tools in the struggle, the UN Security Council resolutions as well as the economic sanctions must be intensified. Of equal importance was to increase awareness of the Iranian threat among the European public. The EJC delegation also met with Israel’s president Shimon Peres and prime minister Ehud Olmert. The latter praised efforts by EJC president Kantor to focus on the Iranian threat in a professional arena.
