Israel’s Foreign Minister MK Gideon Sa’ar decried a machete attack on a Jewish jeweler on the Tunisian island of Djerba on Thursday, which left the victim in need of hospitalization.

Sa’ar called on the Tunisian authorities “to take all necessary measures to protect the Jewish community.”

Rene Trabelsi, a senior figure in the Tunisian Jewish community and the country’s former tourism minister, said a 50-year-old man was wounded in his hand and needed hospital treatment to reattach one of his fingers.