Gilichinsky has been surveilling neo-Nazi activity in Israel for the past 17 years from his modest apartment in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood, but failed to attract the media or authorities' attention. "Nobody wants to know. The politicians ignore it. Occasionally, some act of vandalism makes the headlines, raising a brief interest that dies shortly afterward," he says.

In April 2003, the Russian-language newspaper Russki Israiltyanin carried a story about the neo-Nazi Bei (White Israeli Union) Web site.

The British newspaper The Guardian reported the story, which also appeared in Haaretz, raising a storm. The cabinet held a session about it and the attorney general ordered a criminal investigation. The Web site was shut down immediately. A Knesset committee headed by MK Colette Avital was set up to probe the issue and invited Gilichinsky to talk about it.

This cheered him up somewhat, but not for long. The committee was slow and ineffective, he says. "Avital asked the police years ago to prepare a report. To this day it has not been done," he says.

The committee's last debate was in July 2005. Avital asked the police whether they had completed the report. They said they were still studying the subject. Gilichinsky's queries to Petah Tikva police commander Moti Feldman about anti-Semitic incidents in that town received no response.

Gilichinsky also has complaints against the Israeli media. "In Western countries, anti-Semitic incidents receive wide media coverage, the politicians denounce it and fight against it. But the Israeli media ignore it and are afraid to deal with it," he says.

In contrast, the foreign media is interested and interviews Gilichinsky frequently, he says. Reporters from Finnish and Swedish radio are on their way to talk to him, he says. "I received calls from all over the world after the story of the desecration of the synagogue in Petah Tikva. Only in Israel there was hardly any interest."

Gilichinsky, married and a father of four, immigrated to Israel in 1989 from Kishinev, capital of the republic of Moldova due to the rising anti-Semitism and the shaky economic situation. He never dreamed that in the Jewish state he would run into the anti-Semitism he had fled from.

"Shortly after I arrived, I saw a letter from immigrants in the Russian language newspaper Novosti Nedeli, about the anti-Semitic conduct of certain imigrants, who swore at them said, among other things, "pity Hitler didn't liquidate the lot of you."

He started looking into the matter and following similar incidents in the Russian language media. "At first it was just curiosity, until in 1999 I ran an ad in Vesti, asking immigrants to report incidents of anti-Semitism in Israel. To my surprise, I received hundreds of letters. I realized it was a growing trend," he says.

He and a friend founded the Information Center for Victims of Anti-Semitism in Israel, a Jerusalem-based non-governmental organization. It is run by volunteers, mainly immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Realizing the need to focus on public relations and information, he set up the Web site pogrom.org.il about three years ago.

Gilichinsky's requests to cooperate with the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center went unanswered. Professor Dina Porat, Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel-Aviv University, replied to his request for help, saying that the institute has "no mandate to deal with incidents in Israel and only deals with anti-Semitism overseas."

"I guess there are more urgent things in Israel than anti-Semitism," he says.

There have been an especially abundant number of complaints about the anti-Semitism of the Russian-speaking schoolchildren. Olim educators are in frequent correspondence with the Information and Support Center for Victims of Anti-Semitism in Israel.

Anti-Semitic acts are largely ignored by officials in Israel, in spite of the fact that the media has informed the public scores of times about this horrific phenomenon.

The behavior of many of the non-Jewish immigrants to Israel is chillingly similar to the disrespectful and disorderly behavior of illegal Mexican immigrants to the United States and Muslim immigrants to Western Europe. Russian thugs in Israel have perpetrated dozens of anti-Jewish incidents.

Three immigrants from the former Soviet Union, ages 14 to 16 were indicted Thursday in the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court for allegedly assaulting ultra-Orthodox residents of the city... 27/01/2005

The following article has appeared in the “Vesti” newspaper, May 22, 2005:

“What happened in the city of Karmiel at the end of last week, on the Student Day, was so far reported only on Channel 10 on TV. There were no reporters on the scene, and only the amateur video given to the journalists was used...

"Hitler was a genius. He succeeded in doing what no one else had done", wrote a 16 year old boy from Be'er Sheva, on his computer's ICQ program. Unfortunately for him, he addressed these shocking statements to Police Investigator Staff Sergeant Oleg Rosental, whose relentless compilation of information, which continued approximately a month, brought to the youth's arrest.

Very quietly, a widespread Neo-Nazi movement has been established here, in which tens of young Russian members are in favor of the destruction of the Jews.

Minister of Interior, Tommy Lapid, announced at a government session that a neo-nazi network composed of immigrants from the CIS is operating in Israel.

Worshipers at the 100-year-old Great Synagogue in Petah Tikva saw the graffiti outside the building when they arrived at 4:30 a.m. Thursday to open it for morning prayers...

Sir, -As an American immigrant studying in a Petah Tikva yeshiva, I joined other residents of that city last Tuesday night to attend festive Independence Eve services at the main synagogue on Rehov Hovevei Zion...

Six minors, immigrants from the CIS, were arrested early this year on suspicion of burning flags and stealing mezuzahs from Nahshonim School in Bat Yam. They also confessed to stealing mezuzahs from homes in the city on eight additional occasions. The teens attributed their actions to a hatred for Jews and Judaism.

"I was walking my dog in Tel Aviv. When I went to cross the street there was a drunk-looking man standing next to me. My dog got scared and started to bark at him. I apologized and continued walking. I suddenly felt someone push me and I fell on the floor. The drunken man pushed me to the ground, took the leash and started to choke the dog. He was screaming at me "Stinking Zhidovka! (A derogatory name for a Jew in Russian).

Six youngsters between ages of 12 and 15 from coastal town Bat-Yam, south of Tel Aviv, arrested for burning Israeli flag and mezuzah parchments torn from doorposts. The boys, not all Jewish, explain 'We loath anything related to Judaism'

...Zalman Glichevsky runs an organization called Dmir for victims of anti-Semitism within the country. "The government knows very well that there is a problem, but they don't react," he said. "It's like talking to a wall, they want to brush this problem under the carpet. Israel has been created as a refuge for Jews, but when it turns out that anti-Semitism is here, too, the refuge is ruined."

Ari Ackerman, a student from Switzerland, was walking home along the Tel Aviv beach after a late-night swim when he and a friend were jumped by a gang singing Nazi songs and displaying swastika tattoos...

Shot and displayed by a neo-Nazi group from Petah-Tikva in Israel...

Russian immigrants who were invited to settle in Israel despite having onlydistant Jewish roots are being blamed for a startling outbreak of anti- Semitism in the country.

Police arrest eight youths suspected of being members of a local neo-Nazi cell. Group members assaulted minority groups, spray-painted swastikas. Before court hearing Sunday, suspects deny allegations, say 'tattoos mean nothing'

Nazi graffiti discovered in several places in the city. Ayalon district police investigating the incident, no arrests made so far

Police in northern town of Migdal Haemek arrest teenager suspected of spraying swastikas on cars, walls...

An indictment was filed at the Tel Aviv District Court Tuesday against the eight youths arrested Sunday on suspicion of being members of a neo-Nazi cell in Petah Tikva. Three of the defendants are minors...

Star pupil at military academy in Haifa posts videos of himself on Youtube, goose-stepping in IDF uniform, reaching sister Nazi salute

Officials say Petah Tikva anti-Semitic gang just one of many, claim 'a number of latent local cells waiting to come out of the closet' . Police posit that a neo-Nazi cell uncovered last weekend in Petah Tikva is not the last anti-Semitic gang in the area. ..

...He'd just finished a lesson at kollel, married men's yeshiva, when "they started laughing at me and making remarks about the 'zhids,'" he recalls. Then the boys started throwing rocks at him. He threw rocks back, until one of the boys hit a car, the driver got out, and the boys scattered...

A 19-year-old was arrested Sunday on suspicion of vandalizing a succa in Haifa. The succa, located near a synagogue in Neve David...

"Patrol 36" – this is how the members of the most aggressive Russian-Nazi gang in Israel had called themselves.

The gang had ties with their "colleagues" in the CIS – the radical neo-nazi group "Format 18" and other groups...

Today, the Law of Return, enacted to increase the number of Jews in the State of Israel, is in reality not only increasing the non-Jewish part of the population, but is also “repatriating” to this country European anti-Semitism.

Of course, there are the “showcase” excesses, such as the drawing of swastikas, the burning and desecration of Jewish cemeteries and religious buildings. The contagion of anti-Semitism, however, has also other less conspicuous but no less detestable manifestations.

Anti-Semitism has been swelling recently in the Jewish state. Not long ago, the first Israeli neo-Nazi Internet site was launched. More precisely, it is an Israeli site in Russian.

Synagogues defaced by swastikas in B’nai Brak? Graves vandalized in Beit Shemesh? A teenager harassed for being a Jew on her way to school in Netivot?

Three immigrants from the former Soviet Union, ages 14 to 16 were indicted Thursday in the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court for allegedly assaulting ultra-Orthodox residents of the city... 27/01/2005 "Haaretz"