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November 8, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26294098

Jews Flock to Rachel's Tomb

(Reuters) - Jews regard Rachel's Tomb as the final resting place of the biblical matriarch and it ranks as Judaism's third holiest site. "We preceded the Arabs here by many, many years. They would stop us coming here if they could, as they did before 1967," said Ruth Koenigsberg, a visitor to the site. The Israeli government said in September that Rachel's Tomb would be folded into a Jerusalem "security envelope" to help seal it off from Palestinian attackers and suicide bombers.

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