Tunisia Synagogue Damaged in Anti-Semitic Attack
A synagogue in Tunisia was vandalized in what a human rights activist and some Jews described as an anti-Semitic attack.
The Beith El synagogue in Sfax, located 150 miles south of the capital Tunis, was ransacked on April 30 by unidentified individuals who littered the floor with prayer books and tallitot, or Jewish prayer shawls, according to a May 4 account by Ftouh Souhail, a human rights activist and attorney who monitors the situation of the country’s Jewish community of 1,700 people.
He said that signs indicated that “Islamo-fascists” were behind the vandalism, which he said was anti-Semitic.
Souhail quoted a 76-year-old member of the Jewish community identified as R. Perez as saying: “They tore apart walls, paintings and threw them to the floor … this is vandalism directed against the Jewish heritage of Sfax. I cried like a child at the sight of my place of worship in this state.” The account appeared Sunday on the website Dreuz.info with a video of the synagogue after the attack.
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