Larviv

MEMORANDUM **

Amram Larviv, a native and citizen of Israel, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judges’s (“IJ”) decision denying his claim for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction *583 under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that the treatment Larviv and his wife experienced in Israel did not amount to past persecution. See Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1431 (9th Cir.1995) (“Discrimination on the basis of race or religion, as morally reprehensible as it may be, does not ordinarily amount to ‘persecution.’ ”); see also Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 967 (9th Cir.1998) (“Petitioner must establish that the mistreatment she suffered was directed personally toward her, and that it was substantially more grievous in kind or degree than the general manifestation of hostility between the competing ethnic and religious groups in [the…