Patrol 36 - Wikipedia
Patrol 36 was active between 2005 and September 2007.[3] Inspired by the Russian neo-Nazi group Format18, its members desecrated buildings, especially synagogues, with swastikas and graffiti, and carried out attacks on migrant workers from Africa and Asia, drug users, members of the LGBT+ community, and Haredi Jews.[4] Patrol 36's members reportedly had tattoos with the number 88 (a reference to the phrase "Heil Hitler"), and were stockpiling guns, TNT, knives and portraits of Adolf Hitler. The group produced videos of their own attacks, which were found on computers seized by police.[5][6][7][8][2][9]
In the homes of those arrested, police also found links to neo-Nazi websites, neo-Nazi films, and photos of members in Nazi uniforms.[10][3] The group planned to celebrate the birthday of Adolf Hitler in front of Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial site.[11] According to police, Patrol 36 maintained connections with neo-Nazi organisations in other countries.[1]
One of the group's members, Ivan Kuzmin, said that in Ukraine "they called me things like dirty Jew... and here they called me stinky Russian". Kuzmin's grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.[12] He said that the racism he experienced turned him into a racist.[13] The leader of the group, Eli Bonite, was recorded on wiretapped conversations saying "my grandfather was a half-Jewboy. I will not have children so that this trash will not be born with even a tiny per cent of Jewboy blood".[14][15] The cell was based in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, where they all lived.[3][8]
It was revealed later, after their arrest, that the main inspiration for the organization's activities was the Russian Neo-Nazi group Format18.[16][17] Also, Patrol 36 members used to upload their videos and publish them in Format18's website, as well as in YouTube.[17]
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