The
monitoring activity of TEV Foundation identified 52 antisemitic hate crimes
from January to December 2015. The number of cases is almost the same as the
data for May to December 2013, but is much higher than the 37 cases recorded in
2014. Consequently, there were less cases of hate crimes per month than in
2013, but more cases than in 2014.
Trends
seen over the past two-and-a-half years show that the monthly fluctuation in
the number of cases is highly arbitrary: although in December and January the
number of hate crimes was low, in the political “layoff ” time of August the
numbers are very high. During the parliamentary election campaign of 2014, the
number of registered cases was low, but in the period preceding the local elections,
the numbers were much higher.
