It was a difficult site, the desecration of sifrei kodesh in the Beit Yosef Shul on Tel Aviv’s Berditzivsky Street.
 
A messenger searching for a delivery address on the street noticed the desecration and immediately notified authorities.
 
When volunteers arrived during the evening hours, they were surprised and pained to find cats inside the open Aron Kodesh, seeing piles of defiled sifrei kodesh. On the floor, they found seforim strewn in every direction, some torn, others just having been knocked to the ground.

The destroyed seforim were collected and placed into large bags and taken by Zaka volunteers for kvura. The Tel Aviv Zaka commander, Rav Tzvi Chassid explained that once they heard there was a case of seforim being damaged, it was evident that Zaka needed to respond since it is a case of “Chessed Shel Emes”.
 
The once vibrant shul was targeted, and officials in Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau’s office released a statement the Rav is working to revitalize the shul, as he continues doing with other previously frum communities, seeking to bring young avreichim to the area.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)