The well-known Kol HaNeshama synagogue in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood was vandalized during Shabbat, after a group of youths breached the synagogue’s grounds, the congregation said Sunday.

The assailants broke a window, entered through it and tore a Pride flag in the main sanctuary, “damaging a work of art that hangs there,” Kol HaNeshama said in a statement.

Kol HaNeshama’s Rabbi Debi Shoua-Haim told The Times of Israel that no congregation members were present at the time of the attack, which security camera footage placed at about half past midnight early Saturday.

The congregation filed a complaint with police, which on Saturday sent a detective to take prints and view security camera footage, she added.

A still frame from the footage, published online by the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, shows at least three people breached the synagogue grounds.

“Upon receiving the report, police launched an investigation, in which several actions are being carried out and all lines of inquiry are being examined,” the police said, declining to elaborate and citing the ongoing investigation.

בלילה בין שישי לשבת, בשעה שבה התפרץ בריון להיכל התפילה של בית הכנסת הרפורמי במנהטן, התפרצה חבורת צעירים בריונים לאולם התפילה של קהילת "כל הנשמה" בירושלים, אחת מהקהילות המוכרות........

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