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on edit, the<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/712457.html" target="top"> story out in English</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> <br>Worshippers looking at swastikas sprayed on the Grand Synagogue in Petah Tikva on Thursday. (Nir Kedar)<br><br>Last update - 12:41 04/05/2006 <br> <br>Grand Synagogue in Petah Tikva sprayed with swastikas <br> <br>By Itim <br> <br>Worshippers arriving Thursday at the Grand Synagogue in Petah Tikva found it desecrated with swastika graffiti on its walls and on prayer books. This is not the first time the synagogue is being desecrated. <br><br>Police are investigating several options, including the possibility <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>it was performed by satan worshippers</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. <br><br>The worshippers left the synagogue without praying because they said the swastikas offended them and made it impossible for them to worship while looking at the Nazi emblem. <br><br>Chairman of the synagogue management Avraham Dolberg said the temple had been broken into overnight and sprayed the emblem across all the walls and on the holy arc. <br><br>"We entered the synagogue at 4.30 A.M. and witnessed horror, horror," he said. "People were standing there crying. They haven't witnessed such a thing in their life: A synagogue sprayed on all sides, on all walls. There is not a single wall left without a swastika," he said. <br><br>Dolberg said the vandals also sprayed on the torah scroll. He said the synagogue has been vandalized several times in the past few months, mainly by children, but vandalizing have intensified in the last two months as human excrements were found next to the holy arc. <br><br>Police have not arrested any suspects in that case.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3246874,00.html" target="top">many more photos, on</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> ynet<br><br>on edit - apparently <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>no sinister satanists, but kids. The swastikas are in the wrong direction AND</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> the inscriptions are bad spelling of the German rock band Rammstein. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=havanagilla>havanagilla</A> at: 5/4/06 5:28 am<br></i>