Other incidents included three death threats made to the rabbi of Estadio Israelita in March, by three different people, one of whom was identified. It is suspected that ultra-right activists on the university campus were responsible. The Jewish Community Peru has a Jewish population of 3,000 out of a total of 24 million . Nearly all Peruvian Jews live in Lima, the capital. The Jewish population has been shrinking since World War II when it reached a peak of 6,000.
Most Jewish children attend the community's Hebrew day school.
On 20 April, Hitler s birthday, Peruvian television Channel 14 broadcast a program on the Holocaust. It claimed, inter alia , that the number of Holocaust victims was 4.3, not 6 million, and that close collaboration between European Jewry and the Nazis had enabled the Holocaust to take place. It also questioned the authenticity of Anne Frank s diary as well as other historical facts. The Jewish community protested to the director-general of the media company responsible for operating the television station, and Dr. Leon Trachtemberg, a well known Jewish educator, denounced the use made of public platforms to spread prejudice and hate. An anti-Semitic incident occurred in Lima, in December 1999, when a cab driver shouted Death to all Jews, at the Ashkenazi rabbi of the city as the latter was entering the synagogue.