Soon everyone will be able to enter the Cave of the Patriarchs
Perhaps you do not know that the Cave of the Patriarchs — Maarat Hamachpelah — is not accessible to all. While everyone is permitted to enter the holy site at which Abraham, Isaac and...
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If this was about a mosque, the elevator would have been built decades ago.
Finally! The end of a surrealistic battle that should shame everyone who fought against making a religious site accessible to the disabled, the elderly and pregnant women who are left at the bottom of...
When an Elevator is Not Just an Elevator
The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is visited by nearly a million people annually, Jews, Muslims, Christians who come to worship at the burial site of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their wives...
60 Minutes On The Steps Outside Of Kiryat Arba
I went to Kiryat Arba for the Passover Seder this year and I want to tell you something about my visit. Kiryat Arba is a town of about 8000 Jews, founded in 1968, just...
