A 39-year-old resident of the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak was indicted on Monday for issuing death threats against leaders of the Reform movement and for vandalizing a Reform synagogue in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana twice in the past few years.

The Jerusalem District prosecutor’s office did not disclose the name of the defendant in the indictment. The defendant has also been charged with terrorizing prominent Israeli atheists and targeting activists in Breaking the Silence, which collects testimony from Israeli soldiers about their service in the territories. …

According to the indictment presented to the Jerusalem District Court on Monday, the suspect is being charged with extortion by threat, vandalism and preparation of dangerous substances in six separate incidents, which took place between January 2014 and August 2017, two of them involving the Reform synagogue in Ra’anana. …

The indictment lists three other cases involving threats against prominent Israeli atheists. In each case, the defendant left threatening letters outside the homes of his victims, covered by knives, and sprayed hateful graffiti on the walls of their buildings.