JERUSALEM, April 3 (UPI) -- Israeli police were searching for the person who spray painted the words "murderous dog" on Yitzhak Rabin's grave in a Jerusalem cemetery.
Investigators said they were checking whether security cameras filmed the vandals who spray painted the graves of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Lea, in the national cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, the Ha'aretz news agency reported.
Cemetery workers called police Sunday, but had erased the hate slogans on the graves before police arrived.
Jerusalem District police Chief Maj. Gen. Ilan Franco formed a special investigative team to lead the investigation.
The words "Hitler -- the brain" were also found spray painted on several graves in the same cemetery during the weekend. Last week vandals spray painted "Neo-Nazis -- long live Beilin" on the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founding father of Zionism.
