A trend of denigrating Hanukkah? Last Shabbat night, an Arab boy in the Amishav neighborhood of Ramla was filmed extinguishing the Hanukkah menorah that was placed in the yard of a house.
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According to local residents, the boy was seen riding a scooter to the entrance of a Jewish family's yard in the neighborhood, stopping specifically to extinguish the menorah that had been placed there.
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The police said that an investigation was opened upon receipt of documentation distributed online in which a minor is apparently seen extinguishing Hanukkah candles at the entrance to the courtyard of a house in Ramla.
In the evening, the police announced that the officers were able to reveal the identity of the child recorded in the video - who was under the age of criminal responsibility. He was summoned by the officers, along with his parents, to the Ramla police station, where the wrongness of his actions was explained to him.
""The police view seriously any incident of violence, harm to a person, their property, and religious feelings, and are working with all the tools at their disposal to reach the suspects and bring them to justice.".
The incident in Ramla joins a string of anti-Semitic provocations during the holiday. Last Thursday, outrageous footage was released from the Weizmann Mall in Tel Aviv - where an Arab woman wearing a hijab was seen demonstratively extinguishing the candles of the Hanukkah menorah that had been placed there.
The footage shows a man accompanying the woman standing next to her and clapping as she disrespects the Jewish holiday. Later, after extinguishing the candles and leaving the scene, the woman returns to the menorah once more, and while recording herself and the act on her phone, she also turns off the sun.
