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Natan Sharansky, head of the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency that encourages immigration to Israel, accompanied Netanyahu to Paris and projected that as many as 20,000 French Jews would move to Israel this year, double the forecast before last week’s rampage.

The Israeli prime minister, who faces re-election March 17, has made the dangers of radical Islamic movements a main theme of his Likud party’s campaign. He has also been one of the most outspoken critics of world powers’ nuclear talks with Iran, arguing they let the Islamic Republic buy time to develop atomic weapons, an aspiration it denies.

Netanyahu reversed an earlier decision to skip the Paris ceremonies on security grounds after political rivals announced they would attend. He is due to meet with French Jewish leaders after today’s demonstration.

Three days of deadly violence in the Paris area began Jan. 7 when gunmen killed 12 people in the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that has offended Muslims repeatedly by publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and was firebombed in 2011. A policewoman was shot dead the following day in a suburb of the capital, and French authorities say the assailant was the same man who took hostages a day after at the Hyper Cacher grocery in Paris, killing four Jews.

The victims of the supermarket attack will be buried in Israel, tentatively on Tuesday, at their families’ request, Netanyahu’s office said in an e-mailed statement.

Other Israeli politicians who traveled to France for Sunday’ss events were Netanyahu rivals Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman of the Yisrael Beytenu party and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett of Jewish Home.

“We are seeing images we hoped we wouldn’t see again, of Jewish businesses being shuttered, of synagogues abandoned, of Jews scrambling to leave France,” Bennett said in a release after visiting the kosher market that was attacked.

“This isn’t an isolated incident,” he said. “This is Islamic global terrorism and the free world must eradicate it.”