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 Jacob, and their wives Sarah, Leah and Rivka are buried, not everyone is able to. In today’s world of attending to […]

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 the long treacherous staircase leading to the prayer halls at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, able only to gaze […]

Only in Israel: Human Rights Activists Against Human Rights

I wonder if it is only in Israel or concerning Israel that we find human rights activists fighting human rights. And our government does not seem to know how to deal with it. In this case, we have a supposed human rights organization fighting the human rights of the disabled, the elderly and young children […]

LOL — Calling Hebron Occupied and then Showing the 97% that is not.

News of the impending appropriation of a few meters of land, the few meters required to build an accessiblity elevator to the Cave of the Patriarchs, has resulted in the production of the amusing propaganda video in the Tweet below. Let me show you how many errors there are in this very short piece if […]

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 Sarah, Leah and Rivka, and tourists who come to experience the culture. But some of those who make the trip have […]