A daycare center located on Nurit in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood of Yerushalayim was targeted in an arson attack, discovered motzei Shabbos Lech Lecha 5774. According to the Hamodia report the brush around the center so it would spread to the building. The locks of the chareidi kindergarten had traces of a flammable substance and the entrance appeared to have been tampered with, perhaps an effort to break in.

Police are investigating.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)