SYDNEY : A home in Sydney previously owned by a senior Jewish community leader was vandalised on Friday morning and two cars were set on fire, with one spray painted with an antisemitic slur, Australian authorities said.

A series of antisemitic attacks occurred in Sydney’s Dover Heights. Vehicles were defaced, set alight, and hateful graffiti vandalized a former Jewish community leader’s home. The incidents have led to increased security and government promises to strengthen hate crime laws.

Four vehicles and the former home of a Jewish community leader were defaced in Sydney early Friday, with two cars set alight, in the latest antisemitic attack condemned by Australian authorities, who vowed to “hunt down” the perpetrators.

Two cars have been torched and graffitied with slogans in a fresh anti-Semitic attack, which has left the Jewish community further on edge.