s were destroyed in the bombing and the event left many emotionally scarred. Though Iran was suspected of involvement with the help of Argentine police, the culprits have never been found. On another occasion, spectators at a soccer game in Buenos Aires jeered at the members of a visiting Jewish team, hurled neo-Nazi epithets at them and threw bars of soap on the playing field-in direct reference to the myth that the Nazis produced soap made from the bodies of their Jewish victims. The year 1999 was marked by a decrease in anti-Semitic incidents compared with previous years. Nevertheless, several serious incidents were recorded, including the planting of two explosive charges at the entrance of the homes of two Jewish families in Paran in August 1999. The charges were discovered after anonymous calls to the homes of the families and the police. In addition, there were two major desecrations of Jewish cemeteries, one on 19-20 September, when 63 graves were desecrated in the main Jewish cemetery La Tablada, and another on 30 September when 12 graves were vandalized in the old Jewish cemetery of Ciudadela. In both cases, the DAIA claimed that, once again, police of the Province of Buenos Aires were targeting the Jewish community as part of their resistance to reforms in the police force. Five other desecrations of Jewish cemeteries took place during 1999, including in the city of Mendoza, where 20 gravestones were damaged.viFour Jewish institutions in the Jewish neighborhood of Once in Buenos Aires received anti-Semitic leaflets in April 1999. The text, printed on colored paper, with a large swastika in the middle, contained veiled anti-Semitic references.Several anonymous false bomb threats were received, the most alarming at the AMIA community building in December, which had to be evacuated. Others were reported at the Keren Hayesod building in July and at the Yavneh school in Buenos Aires in October. A telephone threat to ̶...
