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Morning Briefing – 28.04.25

FYI:

Merz announced the federal ministers from the CDU when he will become federal chancellor and a Jewish liberal CDU member and current Schleswig Holstein minister of education would become federal minister for education, family, seniors, women and youth.

La Licra Belgique présidée par Isabelle Eckierman, a organisé, le 23 avril dernier à Bruxelles, sa première conférence débat avec Thierry Breton, ancien Commissaire au marché intérieur, et Bruno Colmant, économiste, sur le modèle numérique européen face aux ambitions des patrons de la Tech. américaine après l’élection du président Trump.

Jordan Bardella says he will run for French presidency if Le Pen barred. The far-right National Rally’s Jordan Bardella will run to be French president in 2027 if current leader Marine Le Pen is still barred after an appeal against an embezzlement conviction, he told newspaper Le Parisien. Read more.

Austrian far right triples result in Vienna election. Austria’s far-right Freedom Party continued its march against the country’s political establishment in Vienna’s municipal election on Sunday, nearly tripling its result to finish a strong second behind the ruling Social Democrats. Read more.

Hamas open to long Gaza truce but not to disarming, an official says: Hamas is open to a years-long truce with Israel in Gaza but is not willing to lay down its arms, an official said on Saturday, as leaders of the Palestinian Islamist militant group met mediators in Cairo for ceasefire talks.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints aide as PLO deputy: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a close aide as vice president, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said. Hussein al-Sheikh was named “deputy [vice president] of the PLO leadership,” Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, said on Saturday.

UN food stocks run out in Gaza amid Israeli aid blockade: The UN’s World Food Programme has said its supplies in Gaza are depleted, as Israel’s blockade on aid nears its eighth week.   Yemen’s Houthi rebels fire missile toward Israel, which Israeli military intercepts: Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile early Sunday toward Israel, which the Israeli military said it shot down. Sirens sounded in parts of Israel around the Dead Sea over the attack.

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About Sentinel

SENTINEL is a European project funded by the European Commission and led by the Security and Crisis Centre (SACC by EJC), the security arm of the European Jewish Congress. It brings together the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), national-level Jewish communities from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, and Spain, the European Union of Jewish Students, with the support of the Italian Carabinieri and the Police Presidium of the Czech Republic.

The project is designed to strengthen the protection of Jewish places of worship across the European Union through a coordinated set of activities over a three-year period.

SENTINEL will harness AI-enhanced open-source intelligence to monitor and assess current, emerging, and future threats. It will also equip Jewish communities with practical tools, including a mobile security application with a panic button and an interactive map built on real-time incident data.

Training and capacity-building are at the core of the project. These include scenario-based security exercises, crisis management seminars, and both in-person and online training sessions for community security trustees. SENTINEL will also organise EU-wide and local conferences to foster collaboration between Jewish communities, public authorities, and law enforcement agencies.

Complementing these efforts, national and local workshops will promote knowledge-sharing and preparedness, alongside pilot training programmes for law enforcement. A dedicated podcast series will help raise awareness by exploring threat assessments and potential responses.

With its wide-reaching and inclusive approach, SENTINEL will directly benefit to Jewish communities across 23 EU Member States, enhancing resilience, strengthening preparedness, and building long-term cooperation with law enforcement to meet today’s evolving security challenges.