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Rabbi Matt Cutler speaks with WNYT on March 12, 2026. (Courtesy Matt Cutler/ JTA)
March 20, 2026, 3:10 am
Threatening messages, and an arrest, bring antisemitism close to home for a New York rabbi
Rabbi Matt Cutler stresses the need for vigilance following a Detroit area synagogue attack, amid the Iran war and one of the most challenging times for US Jewish security in modern history
By Grace Gilson
President Isaac Herzog attends a ceremony marking the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in the Ben Shemen Forest on February 2, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
February 5, 2026, 5:58 am
Australian teen charged with making death threats against Herzog ahead of upcoming visit
Suspect, who also reportedly threatened Trump, faces up to 10 years in prison for threatening ‘a foreign head of state and internationally protected person’ on social media
By Reuters
Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)
November 21, 2025, 3:12 pm
Anonymous website offers $100,000 to kill top Israeli research academics
English-langauge page lists dozens of ‘criminals and collaborators,’ accuses them of being ‘involved in the murder of Palestinian children’; site taken down after several hours
By ToI Staff
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in conversation after the New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on June 12, 2025, in New York City. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times via AP)
June 20, 2025, 1:10 pm
Muslim NY mayoral candidate reports receiving threats from anonymous caller
Jewish lawmaker says he was run off the road by man with Palestinian flag a day earlier; incidents add to growing concern in US over rise in antisemitic, anti-Muslim hate post-Oct. 7
By Reuters
Holocaust denier Candace Owens speaks on stage during conservative group Turning Point USA's 'The Peoples Convention' at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, June 14, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsk /AFP)
May 17, 2025, 11:46 am
Candace Owens says she was target of death threats by New Jersey Jewish man
Far-right US pundit identifies herself as victim of Haim Braverman, accused of seeking to carry out ‘death sentence’ against the Holocaust denier for disparaging Lubavitcher Rebbe
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: A woman holds her cellphone with an Israeli flag cover at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, February 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 10, 2024, 10:10 am
‘You’ll be buried by next week’: Police probe threatening text messages sent to Israelis
Messages reportedly include full names, cities of residence; authorities advise people to ignore ‘fake messages intended to induce panic during war’ and block senders
By ToI Staff
Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, poses sitting on a wall near the Seine River with the Eiffel tower in the background (R), in Paris, on July 2, 2024. (Joel Saget / AFP)
August 3, 2024, 1:38 am
Olympics ceremony director threatened for sexual identity, false claim of Israeli roots
French police say they have opened an investigation into online threats, hate speech against Thomas Jolly; LGBTQ+ icon who performed in opening event also faces online abuse
By AP
Police stand watch outside the Olympic Village, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 23, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
July 28, 2024, 7:11 pm
France probing death threats against three Israeli Olympic athletes
Source tells AFP no link with Iran has been found and that the threats are unrelated to Israeli athletes’ personal information leaked on Friday
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Eiffel Tower Is pictured from the Champs de Mars arena, with part of the Beach Volleyball court in foreground, in Paris, June 25, 2024. (Thomas Padilla/AP)
July 21, 2024, 10:13 am
‘We will repeat Munich 1972’: Israeli Olympic athletes threatened ahead of Paris Games
Though Israeli security officials say threats generated by bots and are not of real concern, country’s Olympic Committee remains on alert
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police car in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 18, 2024, 5:06 pm
Man arrested on suspicion of threatening to murder Netanyahu
Resident of Binyamina allegedly wrote in Telegram group: ‘I’m saying it now, on Saturday night I’m murdering Bibi’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: French police officers at Gare du Nord station in Paris, February 1, 2021. (Francois Mori/AP)
April 24, 2024, 8:34 am
Man in France accused of threatening Jewish woman’s life to ‘avenge Palestine’
Suspect allegedly held victim in Paris apartment, sent messages to her mother that she would never see daughter again; rape suspicions also being probed
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A school student is seen wearing a hijab. (Rawpixel via iStock)
March 27, 2024, 11:58 pm
French politicians in uproar after school principal resigns over hijab altercation
Paris school head receives death threats after getting into a fight with a student who refused to remove her hijab as per French law
By Sophie LAUBIE
A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus in Ithaca, New York, on January 14, 2022. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)
November 1, 2023, 9:15 am
Student hit with federal charges for online death threats aimed at Cornell Jews
Patrick Dai faces five years in prison after allegedly posting gruesome threats on forum, sparking alarm on university campus in upstate New York
By AP and ToI Staff
Hadash-Ta'al leader MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2023, 1:26 pm
Death threats: Security for Arab party leader Odeh after he denounced crime families
Knesset Guard informs Hadash chief of danger to his life as his party accuses government of giving criminals ‘a green light… to run wild and murder’ amid surging deadly violence
By ToI Staff
Law enforcement investigate the scene of a shooting involving the FBI, Aug. 9, 2023 in Provo, Utah. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)
August 10, 2023, 9:03 am
FBI shoots and kills Utah man accused of posting death threats against Biden
Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the home of Craig Deleeuw Robertson, who had written online about wanting to ‘put a nice hole in [the president’s] forehead’
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SAM METZ
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