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Vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery in Reghin, Romania, last weekend, toppling 14 gravestones just ahead of Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance day.
The Mureș County Police Inspectorate reported that attackers pushed over the gravestones during the night between Saturday and Sunday. The monuments remained intact, but the attackers scattered them across the cemetery grounds.
Police received the report Sunday morning and launched an investigation with prosecutors to identify those responsible. No arrests have been announced as of yet.
Israeli Knesset Member and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, whose great grandfather is buried at the cemetery, said he had been informed of the incident by Romanian Ambassador to Israel Radu Ioanid.
He noted the ambassador had assured him that senior Romanian officials were addressing the matter at the highest levels.
“Antisemitism knows no bounds nor has faded with time,” Gantz wrote in a post on X.
“This Holocaust Memorial Day, particularly with growing antisemitism in Europe, I call on the international community to be uncompromising on its crackdown on Holocaust denial and modern-day antisemitism,” he added.
Romanian Ambassador to Israel @Radu_Ioanid called me this evening, on Holocaust Memorial Day of all days, about the disturbing desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Northern Romania, where none other than my great grandfather is buried.
The desecration of a Jewish cemetery is a… pic.twitter.com/3FxD7jAzHl
— בני גנץ – Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) April 14, 2026
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