Escalating anti-Semitic attacks target Jewish hubs

A TIMELINE OF MAJOR ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS

* November 21: Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti was sprayed and a car was set on fire in an eastern Sydney suburb with a large Jewish population. Three men have been charged

* December 6: The Adass Israel Synagogue in south Melbourne was burned down in an attack Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled an act of terrorism

* December 11: Graffiti including "Kill Israiel" (sic) was sprayed on buildings and footpaths and the perpetrators' car set on fire in a Sydney suburb with a large Jewish community. A 34-year-old woman has been charged

* January 6: Anti-Semitic slogans were painted on a car and sprayed on nearby buildings and footpaths in Sydney's east

* January 10: Swastikas were painted on the Southern Sydney Synagogue in an act the NSW premier labelled "disgusting and disgraceful"

* January 11: A synagogue in Sydney's inner west was spray-painted with red swastikas and vandals attempted to set it on fire

* January 16: Police charged a man who allegedly used social media to make death threats against members of the Jewish community

* January 17: A house that formerly belonged to Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in an arson and graffiti attack

*January 21: A childcare centre near the Maroubra Synagogue in Sydney's east was set on fire with an anti-Semitic slogan sprayed on a wall

* January 29: Police announce a caravan filled with explosives and a note containing addresses of Jewish people and institutions was found 10 days earlier in northwest Sydney.