IDF Chief of Staff Prays at Tomb of Rachel, Bethlehem

Rachel's tomb : Knesset discusses security measures at holy site

The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee discussed the security situation at Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem in Monday. It appears that a roof may be built over the compound, to protect the worshipers inside from incessant Arab attacks.

The IDF told Knesset Members that about 200 firebombs and 90 improvised explosive devices(IEDs) have been thrown at the compound since November’s Pillar of Defense military operation in Gaza. That means an average of almost two bombs a day.

The military said that the very tall walls that have been constructed around the compound – nine meters high, or almost 30 feet – have not sufficed to provide security.

Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman instructed the military to examine plans that were drawn up a long time ago, to add a roof over the compound, in order to provide security for the worshipers inside. Themilitary is to go back to the committee and report on its findings in a month’s time.

MK Orit Struk said after the discussion, “I am pleased with the results of the discussion and I hope that we will have the privilege of seeing Rachel’s Tomb turn from a bunker into a proper place of worship. I thank the IDF and the Border Police for the efforts they have been making in order make the place secure.”

Coalition Chairman MK Yariv Levin called the instruction to reexamine security arrangements “important” and predicted that it would lead to the protection of worshipers and of security personnel.

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Yaffa Tevuah and Kever Rachel

The fools at Unesco

Rachel Imeinu, our mother, died as she was giving birth to her second son Binyamin. Before dying, she named him Ben Oni; the child of my pain. His father however called him Binyomin.
She died as Yaakov entered Eretz Yisroel and was buried in Bais Lechem which is about four miles southwest of Yerushalayim.
The midrash says that Hashem commanded Yaakov to bury her here so that the Jews would be able to pass her kever place on their way into exile and pray for their redemption. On account of her great deed of not allowing her sister to be embarrassed in public, Hashem would hasten the final redemption.

Apparently, UNESCO have now decreed that Kever Rachel, the tomb of the matriarch of the Jewish people Rachel, is now not only a Muslim site but a Christian site as well. 

For some reason, the fools at UNESCO agree with the PA who claim that Kever Rochel has been a Muslim site for thousands of years (even though Islam hasn’t been around for more than 1,500 years...). They have not explained their views which are absolutely false and don’t plan to do so. They have also discouraged Israel from declaring it a national heritage site (which Israel has, thank G-d, done anyway). 

I am wondering why for UNESCO try to destroy any Jewish connection to our holy sites (all situated in Judea and Samaria...) results much more important than historic truth.

Do you ever heard that Rachel is workshipped by Christians? They have enough of the many females idols versions of the many saints from all over the world, they have the Mary  cult as female figure to workship is so many ways I really think they have enought and don't really care about Rachel.

About Islam is even more ridiculous: how can they pretend Rachel is part of their religious heritage if Islam did not even exist 1500 years ago...

Why all this then? To give credibility to a baseless claim made by a terrorist organisation known as the PA. This vile lie is a disgrace and UNESCO should be embarrassed.