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1,500 Jews Find Vandalism at Joseph's Tomb for Hanukkah
« on: December 21, 2014, 10:58:32 pm »
1,500 Jews Find Vandalism at Joseph's Tomb for Hanukkah

After more than a month with no Jewish visitors allowed, over 1,500 Jews on Sunday night went to Kever Yosef (Joseph's Tomb) in Shechem (Nablus) located in Samaria to pray at the grave of the Jewish patriarch from the Torah - only to find it vandalized.
The Jewish visitors discovered that the electric system of the tomb compound was destroyed, with light bulbs and fluorescent light fixtures smashed, leaving the Tomb in utter darkness.
In an almost symbolic act hearkening to the Hanukkah story in which the Maccabees rededicated the Second Temple with light after the Greek occupiers desecrated it, the visitors lifted the darkness at the Tomb by lighting a massive hanukkiya (holiday candelabrum) for the sixth night of Hanukkah.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188952#.VJe6QC3wA