Police report a pipe bomb was thrown at a building housing a Torah group in the center of Lod on Thursday. A second bomb failed to explode. Police view the attack as marking an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the city.
Police quoted by the daily Haaretz state with certainty that the attackers were well aware the house targeted was a Jewish home, and the incident was no coincidence. According to Aaron Atias of the �Torah Garin�, the attack on Thursday was the third recent attack against them, including the burning of an Israeli flag and painting swastikas on the building.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
