A memorial sign near the entrance to Yitzhak Rabin Boulevard in Jerusalem was vandalized. The incident Monday night occurred several days after Jewish extremists threatened to damage Rabin’s grave in retaliation for the dismantling of a memorial plaza at the grave of Kiryat Arba resident Baruch Goldstein, who murdered 29 Muslim worshipers in a Hebron mosque in 1994.
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