Former home of Israel's late president Chaim Herzog in Ireland vandalized

Swastikas have been painted on the childhood home in Ireland of the former president of Israel, Chaim Herzog. SS insignias also were found on the Herzog house, where the late president had lived with his father, rabbi Isaac Halevy Herzog, a chief rabbi of Ireland and later Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel. The attack is the latest example of several anti-Semitic incidents in Ireland during recent months. The gates of the Dublin Central Synagogue, the Jewish Museum, a home for Jewish senior citizens and the gates of the two Jewish cemeteries were all scrawled with anti-Semitic symbols. The former president's grandson, the Israeli cabinet minister Isaac Herzog, has lodged a complaint with Ireland's ambassador to Israel, Patrick Hennessey, who has expressed his own sharp condemnation of any form of racism, the "Jerusalem Post" reports.