Overview

• The southern Ezrat Yisrael section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem was found defaced on Monday morning with the Hebrew slogan "There is a holocaust in Gaza".
• Police took a 27-year-old Jerusalem resident into custody near the Mughrabi Gate on suspicion of spray-painting the graffiti.
• Investigators say the same suspect had earlier targeted Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue with the identical message.
• Mayor Moshe Lion and Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch condemned the act as a desecration of Judaism’s holiest site and called for the perpetrators to face justice.
• Jerusalem’s religious authorities have arranged halachically compliant cleaning operations pending the suspect’s initial court appearance.