09.03.2011                      03.Adar ll, 5771

Tunesien:

Tunisian Jews feel safe under new government

"We are all happy that the dictatorship has gone," Jewish leader tells ‘Post.’

Almost two months after a popular uprising ousted longtime Tunisian dictator Zine Abidine Ben Ali, giving rise to fears in some quarters that the country might be swept by an Islamic revolution, Tunisian Jews said on Tuesday that they had not been targeted by extremists so far and felt safe under the country’s new government.
Roger Bismuth, the president of Tunesia's Jewish community, told The Jerusalem Post by phone from the capital, Tunis, that local Jews considered themselves part of the upheaval that had brought unexpected political change to the country….