{"id":624788,"date":"2026-09-23T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624788\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:32:11","slug":"police-arrest-three-minors-after-reform-synagogue-vandalized-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624788\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest three minors after Reform synagogue vandalized in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police said all three suspects are Jerusalem residents and that the investigation is ongoing. Investigators were expected to ask a court later Wednesday to extend their detention.<\/p>\n

During Yom Kippur, the synagogue was broken into<\/a> between the end of Kol Nidre services on Sunday night and the beginning of services on Monday morning. A pride flag hanging in the sanctuary was removed.<\/p>\n

The break-in marked the fourth incident in roughly a month targeting the synagogue, one of the city\u2019s long-standing Reform congregations. A week earlier, during Rosh Hashanah, eggs were thrown at worshipers<\/a> outside the site.<\/p>\n

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yossi Havilio addressed the congregation after Yom Kippur services and expressed the municipality\u2019s support. During Kol Nidre the previous night, Rabbi Oded Mazor read a message from Mayor Moshe Lion expressing shock at the earlier attacks and pledging the city\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

The synagogue, which visibly supports the LGBTQ community<\/a>, has also been targeted in previous years. In 2018, a large rock was hurled into its courtyard while more than 200 people were taking part in Simchat Torah celebrations. There were no injuries.<\/p>\n

JTA contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said all three suspects are Jerusalem residents and that the investigation is ongoing. Investigators were expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,1158,3794,31480,10124,43,102,14868,82925,19718,41717],"class_list":["post-624788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-jerusalem","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rosh-hashanah","tag-synagogue","tag-vandalism","tag-yom-kippur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}