Israeli sexual crime statistics in 2024 and report findings

Israeli sexual crime statistics in 2024 and report findings

In 2023 the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) received 17,484 new complaints of sexual offences, including sexual assault and harassment. When ARCCI data were disaggregated, the most common type of offence in ARCCI complaints was incest, representing 36% of all complaints made to the centre. When analysed for crimes against children, 70% of complaints were about incest. The next most common offence type in ARCCI complaints was rape, composing 28% of all reported offence types. These figures were included in annual data presented in late 2024. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

The ARCCI report data distinguished patterns between complaints made to the crisis centres and complaints made to police. In complaints to police, indecent acts and sexual harassment were more frequently cited compared with ARCCI data patterns. ARCCI data also showed that in a proportion of cases reported to crisis centres, the offender was the victim’s parent, other relative, friend, or acquaintance, with only a small percentage of cases involving strangers. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

The reported statistics from ARCCI included age distribution of complaints: a portion of complaints involved offences against adults over 18, and a substantial proportion concerned offences against minors, both children 12 and under and adolescents aged 13 to 18. The majority of reported perpetrator gender in ARCCI cases was male. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}