(JTA) – In a survey about antisemitism in France, nearly a quarter of 1,027 Jewish respondents said they had experienced a physical antisemitic assault. The results of the survey, carried out this year by the IFOP for the American Jewish Committee, were published Jan. 21 in Le Parisien. In France, the home for some 500,000 Jews, authorities documented 541 antisemitic incidents in 2018, suggesting a prevalence of one antisemitic incident per about 1,000 Jews.

Forty-three percent of respondents younger than 35 said they felt threatened in their daily lives. A third of respondents said they avoid wearing items in public that identify them as Jews, including a kippah. Thirty-seven percent said they avoid installing a mezuzah on the external side of their door. Asked about their level of confidence in the government as a vehicle for fighting antisemitism, 40 percent said they trust it and 60 percent said they trusted the police. Nearly three-quarters said they trusted CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities.