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Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at the Never is Now conference in New York, March 5, 2024. (courtesy)
ADL chief pays solidarity visit to Jerusalem Reform synagogue targeted in repeated attacks
By ToI Staff
Jonathan Greenblatt attends Friday night services at Kol Haneshama, which was vandalized on High Holidays; says 'no congregation should be targeted because it chooses to be inclusive'
Swastikas sprayed during a break-in at Shvilim democratic school in Pardes Hanna on September 6, 2026. (Pardes Hanna Municipality)
September 6, 2026, 6:29 pm
Pardes Hanna school broken into, daubed with swastikas and a racial slur
Municipality condemns ‘expression of racism, hate and violence,’ days into school year; police investigating, with perpetrator and motive still unclear
By Noam Lehmann
A masked assailant is caught on surveillance footage hurling a brick at the glass doors of Channel 12's offices in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of July 28, 2026. (Channel 12 via X)
August 9, 2026, 7:26 pm
Police to charge suspect in string of attacks on media offices
Avraham Hadi, 44, allegedly threw bricks at the offices of Channel 12, Haaretz and Israel Hayom, as well as a Justice Ministry building, along with other similar attacks
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Windows of the Herzliya Pasta Basta branch shown smashed on July 31, 2026. (Herzliya Mayor Yaron Fisher/Facebook)
July 31, 2026, 8:40 pm
Windows of Herzliya pasta franchise smashed, allegedly because it opens on Shabbat
City’s mayor decries ‘serious criminal act,’ backs business, vows to support shopping complex and ensure largely secular city remains ‘beacon of liberalism’
By Michael Horovitz
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters set fire to construction materials during a protest against work on the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Bar-Ilan area of Jerusalem, June 8, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 9, 2026, 8:25 pm
Rioting by Haredi extremists has caused NIS 600 million damage to Jerusalem light rail work
Transport Ministry says ultra-Orthodox groups’ vandalism of infrastructure and equipment at the construction site in the Bar-Ilan area has set light rail expansion back 2 years
By Sharon Wrobel
Pro-Palestinian protesters outside Gail's Bakery in north London. (Screenshots/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 21, 2026, 11:06 am
UK Jewish leaders condemn vandalism of London bakery accused of ‘funding Israel’
Chain founded by Israeli bakers is latest food business targeted by protesters; red paint splattered on facade of newly opened north London location
By Grace Gilson
Graffiti sprayed overnight outside the Channel 13 offices in Tel Aviv, November 19, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 19, 2025, 10:41 pm
Israeli TV network’s office vandalized with threat calling for ‘blood of traitors’
Channel 13 files complaint with police as broadcast news group say graffiti is just one instance of ‘persistent, organized and dangerous incitement against journalists’
By Charlie Summers
A man visits the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
August 26, 2025, 11:14 am
Alleged Western Wall vandal accused of painting ‘holocaust in Gaza’ on Holy Sepulchre
Police reportedly find graffiti on Old City church weeks after same man, apparently mentally ill, was released to psychiatric care after allegedly daubing identical slogans on Jewish sites
By ToI Staff
An Israeli-owned store after being vandalized, in Maryland, August 6, 2025. (Courtesy/Idan Tzameret)
August 8, 2025, 12:57 am
Israeli-owned kitchen store in Maryland hit with repeated vandalism
Owner of Baltimore-area store says building with Israeli flag hanging from the front has been targeted around 20 times since start of Gaza war
By Luke Tress
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, speaks at the NYCLU's May Day rally for worker's and immigrants rights at Foley Square, May 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
July 22, 2025, 5:29 am
‘AOC funds genocide in Gaza’: Anti-Israel activists vandalize Ocasio-Cortez’s NY office
Democrat defends voting against amendment to cut funding for Israeli air defenses, vows to keep pushing ‘to cut flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide’
By Luke Tress and JTA
A damaged grave is seen in a cemetery near the Old City of Jerusalem, after two teens were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing and damaging the graveyard, on July 11, 2025. (Israel Police)
July 11, 2025, 11:09 am
Two 14-year-olds arrested for vandalism at Muslim cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City
Police say surveillance operators saw teens damaging tombstones and graves on security cameras; suspects to appear in court
By ToI Staff
Graffiti sprayed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank's Deheisha refugee camp near Bethlehem on April 2, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 8, 2025, 2:14 pm
IDF dissolves platoon, dismisses officers after reservists vandalize West Bank camp
Disciplinary crackdown follows multiple recent incidents of misconduct by troops, as new IDF chief enforces stricter accountability measures
By Emanuel Fabian
The Umschlagplatz Memorial, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 12, 2023. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP / File)
January 7, 2025, 8:27 pm
‘Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025’: Holocaust memorial vandalized in Polish capital
Israel envoy denounces graffiti as ‘shameful vandalism,’ calls on Poland to hold perpetrators accountable for crime
By ToI Staff
Footage posted to social media by anti-Israel group Palestine Action purports to show two activists stealing two busts, one of them of Israel's first president, from the University of Manchester, November 1, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 7, 2024, 10:55 am
Activists who stole ‘Weizmann’ busts got one of them wrong – university
Group claimed to nab 2 statues of Israel’s first president; officials say one was indeed his, but the other was of a 19th-century professor who supported women studying physics
By ToI Staff
A picture shows red hand graffiti painted on buildings' walls of the Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie street, in the area where earlier the Holocaust memorial was vandalized with the same red handprints in Paris, on May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/ AFP)
August 7, 2024, 5:40 pm
Suspect who painted red hands on Paris Holocaust memorial denies racial motives
One of three Bulgarian men fighting extradition to France claims it was ‘just hooliganism’ that led him to deface memorial; Sofia court postpones decision until September 26
By AFP
Red paint covers portions of the entrance to the German consulate building, June 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Sophie Rosenbaum)
June 12, 2024, 10:24 pm
Outcry as vandalism targets homes of Jewish Brooklyn Museum officials
Mayor Eric Adams says police investigating actions that crossed over into ‘overt, unacceptable antisemitism’
By AP and ToI Staff
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