Police opened an investigation Tuesday into a suspected "price tag" attack on Dormition Abbey church on Jerusalem\’s Mount Zion.
According to police, graffiti was spray-painted on one of the church\’s walls, including the words "price tag" and "Jesus is a bastard."
The graffiti was immediately erased.
National police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that the special investigation unit created to deal with two other anti-Christian attacks earlier this year will be tasked with looking into the latest one as well.
No suspects were arrested in connection with the previous attacks.
In February, two cars and a stone fence at the Valley of the Cross Monastery in Jerusalem were covered with anti-Christian graffiti, and cars’ tires were slashed. The vandals wrote “Jesus drop dead,” “Death to Christians” and “Kahane was right.”
In September, following the evacuation of the Migron outpost, suspected right-wing vandals spray-painted “Jesus is a monkey” in large orange letters on the outside of the Latrun monastery. They also burned the wooden door at the monastery entrance.
The Latrun incident prompted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to denounce the attack as “a criminal act" and state that "those responsible must be severely punished.”