(Ynet) The Swedish city of Malmo, plagued by anti-Semitism in recent years, has finally decided to allocate funds to fight the phenomenon after an outcry from the local Jewish community.
The city’s municipality announced that it will invest some 20 million Swedish Krona ($2 million) in various initiatives intended to protect Malmo’s Jewish community which over the past 10 years has dropped from 3,000 people to some 1,500.
Despite a low number of Jewish residents, the city — the third largest in Sweden — suffers from dozens of anti-Semitic incidents annually, due in part to the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe and jihadist views (a third of Malmo’s population is from Muslim countries).
