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  Rising anti-Semitism in Israel meets state’s blind eye
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DescriptionRabbi Avraham Levine never imagined that years after immigrating from Russia to Israel he would fall victim to a brutal anti-Semitic attack in the heart of the Jewish state.

But less than three months ago, he was beaten up by teenage skinheads as he walked home in the city of Petah Tikva on Tel Aviv’s outskirts.

“They jumped on me, beat me and cursed my mother in Russian, then they returned with sticks and beat me up. My arm was broken but only God saved my life,” said Levine, 38, who arrived in Israel from Russia in 1995.

“They shouted ‘Zhids leave Russia!’ In Russia, I would hit someone if he said ‘zhid.’ How can someone do it in Israel?” he said. “Zhid” is a derogatory term in Russian for a Jew, roughly equivalent to north America’s “kike”.

The number of incidents with a neo-Nazi, fascist or anti-Semitic streak has increased dramatically over the past 15 years in the Jewish state, which prides itself of being a safe haven for Jews from all over the world, according to the Dmir Centre, which monitors and assists victims of such attacks.

Although the Jewish state is no stranger to anti-Israeli attacks, a new trend has developed since the 1990s—anti-Semitic attacks carried out by “Jewish” citizens, says the centre’s chief Zalman Gilichenski. The vast majority of these incidents are thought to have been carried out by Russian nationalists who identify with anti-Semitic ideology, says Gilichenski.
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