A frum family in Adelaide, South Australia was targeted in an antisemitic attack over Shabbos, with offenders slashing the tires of vehicles at the property and spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic slurs across the home, according to News Corp Australia. The homeowner’s name is Rosti Sverdlov.

Details of the attack remain limited, though it fits into a broader and deeply troubling pattern of antisemitic incidents that have plagued Australia’s Jewish community since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. A report by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry documented 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents across Australia between October 2024 and September 2025 alone, on top of over 2,000 incidents the year before.

South Australia has not been spared from the wave of hatred. In one recent incident, Nazi swastikas were found carved into trees in Adelaide’s Veale Park, while in another, a passerby shouted abuse and taunted a congregant heading into shul in the city.

The attack on the Sverdlov family adds to a string of incidents nationally that have included arson attacks on synagogues, vandalism of Jewish-owned businesses, and assaults on visibly Jewish men and boys, prompting Australian Jewish leaders to repeatedly call on federal and state governments to step up protections for the community.