Six Israeli teenagers from Bat-Yam, near Tel Aviv, were arrested yesterday for setting an Israeli flag and the parchment inside eight mezuzahs on fire. The teenagers, most of whom are not Jewish and from broken homes, were released and placed on house arrest.
The boys admitted to burning the flag and the mezuzahs, which coincidentally also led to the destruction of a school structure in which they burned the mezuzahs.
They also shocked the investigators by telling them that they inflict wounds on their friends, steal, and destroy public property.
In one case, after a brawl over a girl they spread feces on the front door of her house. They had taken over an abandoned house and turned it into their headquarters.
Head of the investigation unit, Chief Superintendent Meir Cohen, told ynet: "We are talking about troublers of Israel. They hate anything related to the Jewish faith. We are trying to find all of the places they have vandalized.