The fire on Dec 6 at Adass Israel Synagogue injured one and caused widespread damage as well as strained relations between Australia and its ally Israel.
It is the third anti-Semitic attack in Australia in 2024, following the vandalism of a Jewish MP's office in Melbourne in June and anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on cars in Sydney's eastern suburbs - an area with a high Jewish population - in November.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) task force will be known as Abalight.
"Special operation Abalight will be an agile and experienced squad of counter-terrorism investigators who will focus on threats, violence, and hatred towards the Australian Jewish community and parliamentarians," Mr Reece Kershaw, the head of the AFP, told a news conference.
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