Just 2% of the U.S. population, Jews are the targets of more than 60% of religiously motivated hate crimes according to FBI data.
Jewish Interpol is now entering Latin America (Brazil) not only to protect Jewish Communities and Institutions, but also to join forces with local authorities and police in combating hatred, anti-Semitism and terrorism.
The Jewish Police Force was created in 1938 after Hitler, by law, ordered that the German Jews had to identify themselves in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the German population. In the new law of August 1938, authorities decreed that by January 1, 1939, Jewish men and women bearing first names of “non-Jewish” origin had to add “Israel” and “Sara,” respectively, to their given names.