Tel-Aviv
– Police have opened an investigation into an incident in which antisemitic
graffiti was scrawled on the walls of a shul in Tel Aviv. The graffiti appears
to include an image of Hitler. Other scrawlings included epithets in English
and Hebrew. Among the phrases: “Hitler was Jewish.”
The
shul is located on Aharon Chelouche Street in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in
the southern part of the city. Once a run-down industrial neighborhood, Neve
Tzedek has gentrified over the past decade, and has become one of the most
desirable sections of the city.
The
graffiti was found on the exterior of the building. According to the police,
there was no damage to the interior of the building. Recently, several similar
incidents were found to have been perpetrated by gangs of Arab youth wandering
the city, and by children from families which immigrated to Israel from the
countries of the former Soviet Union.
Police
promised a “thorough investigation to track down the perpetrators of this
heinous act.”
