Anti-Semitism on every corner: A young Israeli man was attacked over the weekend outside the hotel where he was staying in Limassol, Cyprus.
His father told Kan News that he was severely attacked while having a conversation in Hebrew on Saturday night. According to him, his son, who was on a trip after the army, was talking on the phone in Hebrew, when a man approached him, asked for a cigarette - and then two men attacked him until he lost consciousness. In addition to the attack, the two stole his cell phone and fled the scene.
His brother wrote on social media that an ambulance only arrived after about 40 minutes, and that the local police did not conduct any investigation. The young man was seriously injured in the eye and after the attack returned to Israel on an emergency flight, underwent eye surgery - but lost the sight in his eye.
In a post the father published on Facebook, he wrote: "My son was attacked at the entrance to a hotel in Cyprus - and everyone disappears. My son, a young Israeli, was attacked with severe violence at the entrance to the hotel where he was staying in Cyprus. Not on the street, not in a bar. At the entrance to the hotel - a place that is supposed to be safe and secure. He was brutally beaten, injured in the head and face, and was taken to receive medical treatment.
""But what is no less shocking is what happened after. We contacted the relevant authorities, we also contacted the Israeli consulate - and the response we received was: 'Sunday - we are on leave.' When an Israeli citizen is injured, abroad, after a violent attack - the system is simply unavailable. There is no taking responsibility, no response. There is no feeling of support. There is documentation, there are medical documents and there are testimonies.".
The brother wrote painfully on his Facebook account: "I demand answers! How is it possible that an event so serious that there is a clear concern of an anti-Semitic incident did not come to our attention through representatives of the State of Israel, but only through a broken phone call from my brother when he was injured and frightened, crying out for help from a foreign country?".
He added that after many calls, the family managed to contact Israeli representatives, but he claims they did not provide the necessary help. He said the consulate claimed it was on a day off and could not handle the matter. He claimed that the surgery was funded by the family's money "without any intervention from the government or concern from the authorities.".
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