The San Diego Police Department said its officers would be on heightened alert against any potential threats to the Jewish community starting Wednesday, when Yom Kippur begins at sundown.

"As always, when it comes to Yom Kippur, or any other significant event, we will conduct extra patrols in the areas where there are places of worship," SDPD spokesman Lt. Travis Easter said Tuesday.

The department cited tension in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war and recent attacks on places of worship, including an attack at a Church in Michigan last week , as reasons for doing so.

"We want to do our best to keep our community members safe and afford them the opportunity to express their form of worship in peace, Easter said."

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