Police arrested a resident of Bnei Brak on Tuesday on suspicion that he wrote hate graffiti on a memorial to slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
A slogan found on a wall near the memorial on Tel Aviv’s Ibn Gabirol Street read “Rabin is a terrorist, war criminal,” the force said in a statement.
The suspect, 67 and a resident of the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak that neighbors Tel Aviv, confessed to the crime.
The man was arrested shortly after a siren sounded across the country to mark two minutes of silence for Holocaust Remembrance Day. He was released on the condition that he stays away from Tel Aviv.
The case will be examined by prosecutors who will decide on whether to press charges, police said.
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Former prime minister Rabin was assassinated by an extremist Jewish gunman in Tel Aviv in 1995.
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