Ominous: Tunisian synagogue burned down while police stand aside
This is a very bad omen for the Jews of Tunisia.A Tunisian synagogue in the southern area of Gabes was burnt to the ground by arsonists on Monday night as the police looked on.
Meanwhile, a synagogue in Tunisia‘s souther Gabes region was targeted by arsonists Monday night, a religious leader said.Time to make aliya (emigrate to Israel) folks.
“Someone set fire to the synagogue on Monday night and the Torah scrolls were burned,” said Trabelsi Perez, a Jewish communal leader and head of the famous Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba, according to AFP. “What astonished me was that there were police not far from the synagogue.”
The incident sparked memories of an April 2002 al Qaeda bombing of Ghriba in which 21 people were killed.
Tunisia‘s Jewish population - estimated between 1,000 and 2,000 - is second only to Morocco’s in the Arab world.
Labels: anti-Semitism, Djerba, Gabes, synagogues, Tunisia
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