A Torah scroll which was reported stolen on Friday was returned on Tuesday to a synagogue in the southern city of Netivot.
A resident of the city who works as a scribe told investigators he broke into the synagogue where he prayed, stole the scrol and removed five sheets of parchment after failing to meet a deadline for writing a Torah for a synagogue of Holocaust survivors in Kfar Sava. The five sheets were returned with the recovered Torah scroll.