Worshippers arriving for Friday night prayers at a Yemenite synagogue in the central Israeli town of Kadima-Zoran found the building desecrated, with at least two Torah scrolls on the floor and prayer books ripped apart, police said on Saturday.

The Mishkan Shalom Synagogue , located near Netanya, was littered with torn pages from holy texts when congregants came for Shabbat services.

Police said no property was taken and the synagogue safe was untouched, indicating the break-in was an act of deliberate vandalism rather than theft.

“We are in shock, this is a terrorist attack,” one community member told Israel’s Channel 12 News .

Israeli Religious Services Ministry Director-General Yehuda Avidan called the incident “a crossing of a moral and ethical red line.” He said it evoked s

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