Attackers set fire to a Jewish community center in southeast France overnight, causing slight damage to the entry hall, police said Tuesday. The assailants broke a window at the center in the southwestern city of Toulon and doused the interior with a flammable liquid that was then set on fire, police said. Several walls were blackened by flames, but there were no injuries. It was not clear who carried out the attack, but officials note that such violence tends to coincide with rising Mideast tensions. A day earlier, Israel assassinated Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of militant group Hamas. Yves Haddad, who leads the local Jewish community, expressed “disgust and sadness” at the attack, saying it might be “an importation of what’s happening in the Middle East.” Full Story