A grave travesty is unfolding on Har Hazeisim, where the kevarim of the nevi’im Chaggai and Malachi have been sealed off, adorned with Christian crosses, and made inaccessible to Yidden wishing to daven.
The site — long recognized as a makom kadosh and part of the eternal Jewish presence in Yerushalayim — has been blocked by the Russian Orthodox Church, which claims ownership of the land above the cave. In a blatant affront to Jews, Christian religious symbols have been erected at the entrance, and Yidden are being denied entry to the very kevarim of our nevi’im.
Jews United and the Israel Heritage Sites Fund have sent an emergency letter to Minister of Religious Services Michael Malkieli, calling on the Israeli government to act immediately to restore Jewish access and remove all foreign symbols from the site.
“This is not just a burial site,” said Nachi Weiss, Chairman of Jews United. “It’s a living symbol of our people’s spiritual and historical continuity. Blocking Jewish access and erasing our presence is an offense to our sacred legacy.”
The organizations are demanding: Full and unrestricted access for Yidden; restoration of Jewish oversight; and the immediate removal of all foreign religious symbols.
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This is what the Zionist State brought you.
The Zionist “State” is Zionist, not Jewish. In an actual Jewish State, when permitted by halacha, the first requirement is to remove all idolatry from the land.
[That’s why the giants didn’t kill the meraglim when they went to tour the land, as the Midrash notes. Because Moshe Rabbeinu specifically told them that when the people there ask you if you’ve come to get rid of the idols, tell them (the truth, of course) that, no, you have not come to do that. So, the giants knew that this wasn’t the real deal, and didn’t bother killing those spies. Whereas Yehoshua’s spies had to hide when they went there… The Satmar Rav brings this down in his Divrei Yoel.]
The wicked Zionists, of course, do the opposite: their entire purpose is to shmad the Jews, which they are doing now like never before, and the wicked Zionists also make sure to bend over backwards for every idolatry including even allowing missionaries.
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If the government does not care about public chilllul shabbos,tatto shops,pork stores and toeiva parades why should they care about crosses on Har Hazeisim.
A message to the Israeli non-authorities: You persecute Bnei Torah the world no longer considers you a Jewish state!
The Christians are getting bolder and the Israeli government is scared of their ever increasing anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic campaigns and so they allow the Christians to do what they want.