The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies welcomed the second arrest, saying on Facebook that it was "imperative that every perpetrator of these attacks has the book thrown at them."

An off-duty police officer who was bashed in Sydney's inner west remains in a serious condition as two men allegedly involved in the attack have been charged.

Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, emphasized that the operation targeting these antisemitic crimes is “just getting started.”

The kindergarten was not a Jewish community facility, but local sources said that there was antisemitic graffiti at the premises.

Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October.

A childcare centre has been set alight and graffitied with anti-Semitic words at Maroubra in Sydney's south-east overnight.

Authorities in Australia on Wednesday announced the arrest of a 33-year-old man accused of vandalizing and attempting to set fire to a Sydney synagogue earlier this month.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes, officials said on Tuesday after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.

Two cars were set on fire, multiple more graffitied with antisemitic slogans, and a house was splashed with paint in a Sydney suburb on Friday, according to statements by the New South Wales Police Force and New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, as law enforcement made arrests for a similar November incident.

A second man has been arrested after an alleged attempt to set a Synagogue on fire in Newtown. New South Wales police confirmed a 37-year-old man has been arrested. The man was tasered before being taken in for questioning.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said on Wednesday.

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of racism and oppression.