The father of a Jewish family is now sleeping with a knife under his bed after his home was attacked by anti-Semitic vandals during the Passover holiday.

The electricity to Israel Dahan’s Mira Mesa, California home went out Sunday night. When the father of three went outside to investigate, he saw that his garage and vehicle had been spray painted with swastikas.

Jewish family in Mira Mesa celebrating Passover get the power cut to their home and walk outside to find this. pic.twitter.com/5ysxQj3SIW

— Dan Haggerty (@HaggertyNews) April 9, 2015

He thinks they saw the Mezuzah in the doorway, dodged the surveillance cams, cut the power. Entire fam was inside. pic.twitter.com/1aLgLCGVtt

— Dan Haggerty (@HaggertyNews) April 9, 2015

“In Jewish history, [swastikas] mean someone wants to kill us,” Dahan tells Fox 5.

“We decided to move to the U.S. in order to be more safe and to protect our kids … We’re just trying to grow our kids in [a] quiet neighborhood in a quiet place, which has not happened,” the father says, who moved his family from Israel to America.

It reportedly took police officers 45 minutes to arrive.

There were 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year, according to Anti-Defamation League — a 21 percent increase over the 751 incidents counted in 2013.

“While the overall number of anti-Semitic incidents remains lower than we have seen historically, the fact remains that 2014 was a particularly violent year for Jews both overseas and in the United States,” says ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman.