REUTERS - A Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem will complain to Israel Police about a threatening comment posted on Waze - a Google-owned Israeli-made navigation app – as Israel experiences a rise in hate crimes by far-right Israelis.

"The Bilingual School - may God obliterate their name," was added, in Hebrew, to the location of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand school on the map on Waze, a mobile app, widely used in Israel, which uses driver data to help people avoid traffic jams.

Open gallery view "The Bilingual School - may God obliterate their name" written on location of Jewish-Arab school on Waze Credit: Screenshot

Waze said in response that the issue was fixed immediately after it was brought to their attention. A source at the company told Reuters the entry had been made by a user who had had permission to list destinations on the map but had now been banned.

"I have been in touch with the police and I will file a complaint," said Nadia Kinani, principal of the Hand in Hand school, a rare example of co-existence in Jerusalem which was damaged in an arson attack in November.

An Israeli court last month jailed two brothers from a far-right Jewish group for two years for that attack, in which a classroom was torched and "Death to Arabs" daubed on a wall in the yard.