The Beersheva District Court on Sunday sentenced Tzvi Akravi from Moshav Mivtachim in the south to 4.5 years imprisonment after he was convicted of an arson attack against the community�s shul last year. He set the shul ablaze as a result of a dispute with the shul�s vaad (board of directors).

The dispute revolved around his home, a dispute that was ongoing for years. The moshav slated the home for demolition but the defendant insisted that the home, which was his grandfather�s, today is rightfully his. The community�s engineer recommended the demolition, and the night he was asked to leave the home, the shul was set ablaze.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)