On Sunday, Israeli police arrested a man who is a suspect in the vandalism of the gravestone of Baruch Mandelblit, the father of the current Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.

It was revealed last week that the gravestone had been vandalized a few weeks prior. The stone had been smashed by a heavy tool that has not been specified. Police believe that the vandals wanted to shatter the stone and desecrate the grave.

Left-wing personalities used the incident to attack right-wing activists and claimed that they acted in anger due to the fact that Mandelblit may indict Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The current suspect, however, is a left-wing activist. He thus far has denied any involvement in the incident. Police allowed him to be released on bail but they confiscated his phone and are probing it for evidence that can be used in the case.

Prime Minister Netanyahu went on record on Sunday evening and decried the acts of the left-wing activists who have been putting pressure on Mandelblit to indict the Prime Minister. The pressure includes nightly protests outside the Attorney General’s residence.

“For three years now, the left has protested every week outside of the Attorney General’s home. Left-wing activists have harassed the AG at synagogue and in stores. Now they are being investigated on suspicion of having desecrated his father’s grave. These thugs will go to any lengths to put unbelievable pressure to force [Mandelblit] to indict me. We can only hope that the Attorney General won’t give in to this intense pressure,” Netanyahu said on his Twitter account on Sunday.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)