An orthodox Jew was stabbed
by a hooded man in a Milan street Thursday night, police said.
The victim, 40-year-old Nathan Graff, was taken to hospital
where his condition was said to be satisfactory.
Police said they had so far found no evidence of
anti-Semitism in the attack, which took place outside a kosher
restaurant.
Graff is the nephew of Milan rabbi Hetzkia Levi.
The Milanese and Italian Jewish communities voiced concern
over the attack, which featured prominently in Israeli news
bulletins Friday.
Italian Jews will not be intimidated by the incident, the
president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI),
Renzo Gattegna, said Friday.
"We will go forward, without being intimidated," he said.
Gattegna also called for security measures to be increased
but noted that police work in this area was already
"extraordinary".
Milan's leading Islamic centre on Friday condemned the
attack.
Abdel Hamid Shaari, president of the Islamic Cultural
Centre, voiced "a condemnation without ifs or buts of what
happened last night in Milan".
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