When members of the chevra kadisha arrived in the new Lod cemetery on erev shabbos, they were shocked to find dozens of graves had been vandalized, apparently by thieves who removed the copper housings for yahrzeit lights.
Police responded, explaining it appears they were after the precious metal which they sell by weight. Crime scene investigation technicians took fingerprints and gathered other evidence from the scene.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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This is not new at all. What about the thousands of grave sites on Har Menuchot that have been vandalized. When I called the police to complain, they responded that I had to come downtown to file an official complaint that I had stolen property!!! If I didn’t file, they would not investigate. . . I responded that the grave did not belong to me at all. The only thing I could do was to replace the covering with an aluminum one that is not worth it to steal. There are still literally thousands of places that have no housing for the yahrzeit lights.