The chief rabbi of Orléans, Rabbi Arié Engelberg, was violently beaten, kicked, and even bitten on the shoulder while walking home from synagogue with his nine-year-old son, before the attacker fled after being confronted by a passerby.

France has been rocked by acts of antisemitism of late, including the stabbing of a Jewish woman in her apartment in Lyon on Saturday.

Israel's police chief has ordered an examination into the violence that has swept across the European country following the police killing of a teenager of Algerian descent.

According to Lior Schillat, director-general of Israel's Energy Ministry, the agreement will "allow the development of a gas reservoir that crosses the border between enemy states, an unusual event in the global energy market."