{"id":292842,"date":"2026-02-15T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292842\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:10:08","slug":"nearly-1-in-12-israeli-adults-falls-victim-to-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292842\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1 in 12 Israeli adults falls victim to cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 539,000 Israelis aged 20 and over (8.6%) reported being victims of online crimes<\/a> in 2024, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday for National Safe Internet Surfing Week.<\/p>\n

This accounts for over half of the people aged 20 and over who reported being victims of any crime (15%).<\/p>\n

More men than women in the over-20 demographic were victims of cyberbullying and shaming, with 52.6% being men and 47.4% women.<\/p>\n

Of the thousands of online crimes reported in 2024, over half of them involved theft and\/or distribution of information (52.4%), with a higher likelihood of women<\/a> being the victims.<\/p>\n

Women were also more likely to be the victims of crimes involving impersonation and\/or identity theft, which accounted for 30.8% of reported cybercrimes.<\/p>\n

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The age groups most likely to fall victim to online crimes, regardless of gender, were 45\u201354 (11.1%, or about 113,000 people) and 35\u201344 (10.2%, or about 122,000 people), while the lowest rate was among those over 65 (4.7%).<\/p>\n

Generally, men were reported to be more likely to be victims of online crime, with the exception of the age group 35\u201344, where 8.7% of men reported victimization compared to 11.8% of women.<\/p>\n

When divided by religious demographic, Jewish and other religions reported victimization at a rate six times higher than Arabs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Jewish communities, the highest rate of victimization was in the modern orthodox community (12.1%), while the lowest rate was among the ultra-Orthodox (5.1%).<\/p>\n

Those with higher levels of education fell victim to cybercrimes more often<\/p>\n

A majority of those victimized by online crime were individuals with master\u2019s and doctoral degrees, with crime rates lowering with less formal education.<\/p>\n

While those with high school degrees were most likely to fall victim to crimes involving theft and\/or the distribution of information, those with advanced degrees were most likely to be targeted by crimes involving impersonation or identity theft.<\/p>\n

According to the CBS, over 90% of victims did not actually report the crimes to the Israel Police, though about 40% of those who didn’t said they had reported the crime to a separate authority instead.<\/p>\n

About 13% of victims who chose not to report the crime cited the police\u2019s inability to handle such cases, and nearly 10% said they did not feel the need to report what they considered a minor incident to police.<\/p>\n

Some 42% of households in Israel have children aged 2-18, and 6.8% of those households have been the victim of at least one online crime. Theft, violence or threats of violence, sexual harassment, sexual offenses, online crime, and\/or cyberbullying and shaming were prominent among those crimes.<\/p>\n

In a majority of households where children aged 6\u201317 experienced victimization, it had occurred over the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n

The rate of children<\/a> victimized by online crime in Jewish households was 1.1%, while the estimate for Arab households could not be retrieved by the CBS due to the small number of cases.<\/p>\n

Separately from the thousands who have already been victimized by online crimes, some 25.3% of adults aged 20 and over said they feared \u201cto a very great extent\u201d or \u201cto a great extent\u201d that they would become victims in the future.<\/p>\n

Members of Arab society were the least afraid of falling victim to online crimes, at 15.7% compared to 27.5% for Jews and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 539,000 Israelis aged 20 and over (8.6%) reported being victims of online crimes in 2024, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,89672,21414,85,46,43,3064,13591],"class_list":{"0":"post-292842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-cyber-bullying","10":"tag-cybercrime","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-spotlight","15":"tag-theft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}