Overview
- The site in eastern Libya was reported demolished over recent weeks, with scores of graves wiped out.
- An Israeli heritage advocate attributes the destruction to work on a small power plant that began about a year ago.
- Footage shared with Israel’s Foreign Ministry shows extensive damage, including ruined purification rooms.
- Or Shalom chairman Pedazur Benattia says he is engaging Israeli and Libyan officials to address the incident.
- Libya’s once-large Jewish community has no residents today, and most Jewish cemeteries there no longer exist, according to the advocate.