The Montgomery County Police Department, in Maryland, announced that Crime Solvers of Montgomery County, representing local groups, will pay a $7,000 reward for leads that help officers arrest and prosecute those responsible for “three separate incidents of antisemitic vandalism that occurred in the Bethesda area during August of 2024.”

The vandalism occurred at Bethesda Elementary School (Aug. 11), a local Starbucks (Aug. 13) and at Congregation Beth El (Aug. 13), a Conservative synagogue.

Marc Yamada, chief of the Montgomery County Police Department, stated in August that “the recent acts of antisemitic and anti-Israel vandalism at our schools and places of worship are unacceptable” and that the department “is taking every investigative step possible to close these cases by arrest.”

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