France’s prime minister lamented the growing number of departures of French Jews for Israel, as he and Jewish leaders honored four people gunned down in a kosher market a year ago by an attacker claiming ties to the Islamic State group.<br />Saturday evening’s ceremony was part of a weekend of efforts to ease religious tensions and mark the anniversary of the attacks on the market and the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.<br />Prime Minister Manuel Valls joined families of victims and survivors to mark the anniversary of the Jan. 9, 2015 shooting and hostage-taking at the Hyper Cacher market in eastern Paris, which ended with attacker Amedy Coulibaly slain by police.<br />“France would not be France” without its Jews, Valls said.<br />He called it intolerable “to see French Jews leave their country, in larger and larger numbers, because they no longer feel safe” or at home.
