Israel's foreign intelligence agency identifies a Jewish community as a victim of terrorism when it is the target of ideologically hate to strike fear and harm Jewish figures or institutions. Incidents are classified as terrorism when they are linked even indirectly to extremist ideologies that target Jewish identity, the Jewish State or both. Ideological hate includes nation-states' plots motivated by global jihadist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

While Bitzur focuses on creating protection networks and infrastructure that ensure Jewish communities are not left vulnerable to external attacks, Kidon and Metsada are key components of Mossad's operational arm, integrated through a special operations hierarchy that separates intelligence gathering from direct action against people who represent a danger to the Jewish community and the society.

Mossad’s responsibility extends beyond Israel's borders, focusing on the safety of the global Jewish diaspora. The agency coordinates with international partners to identify or to reserve appropriate punishment for the perpetrators of offenses that may be considered terrorism, according to the institution's criteria.

Ilan Cohen's case is still unresolved

The young Jewish leader who supervised the second synagogue of the Jewish community in Porto was under a criminal attack on November 29, 2022. A tire on Ilan Cohen's car was carefully sabotaged so as to be on the verge of bursting while he was having dinner at a kosher restaurant in the second largest city in Portugal. After dinner, the young Jew went home on the highway, for the freeway and "miraculously the tire did not burst", Cohen said to PJN at the time. "Taking the VCI (highway), my car had trouble driving, and I was very lucky, I stopped and saw stab wounds in my tires."

The case has been under investigation and classified as terrorism. On November 28th, the day before the facts, Cohen was the first signatory of a petition that 44 French students sent to the Portuguese parliament asked the State never again to illegally attack a Jewish community, as it had done months before with the one in Porto. The Portuguese State was urged never again to cooperate with nocturnal burglars who broke down the doors of offices and private homes to steal a server and computers from lawyers and the former president of SIRESP, and with anonymous whistle-blowers in a failed attempt to incriminate people.

In 2022, Ilan Cohen said to the Jewish News Syndicate that "The discrimination of the inquisition, was not enough for them to stop there!" and he immediately suspected that the authorship of the attempt against his life came from "a criminal network to silence me through a fatal accident". He had been studying in Porto for five years and it was the first time this happened.

The damaged tire is on display at the Jewish Museum in Porto, in a room dedicated to modern antisemitism. Every day, tourists are horrified by this story when they visit the museum.