{"id":1343,"date":"2006-06-11T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/11\/kever-rachel-walled-in-and-isolated-whats-next\/"},"modified":"2006-06-12T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T10:10:28","slug":"kever-rachel-walled-in-and-isolated-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/11\/kever-rachel-walled-in-and-isolated-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Kever Rachel &#8212; Walled In and Isolated; What&#8217;s Next??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=105182\"><strong>Rachel&#8217;s Tomb Walled in From All Sides <\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/kever_rochel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center>Kever Rachel in years past<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/p>\n<p>The holy site is located in Bethlehem, a short 3-minute drive from southern Jerusalem. Access to the site was always a simple matter, with public Egged buses and private cars bringing thousands to the tomb to pray.<\/p>\n<p>But the Israel government&#8217;s policy of building walls to confront terrorism has affected Rachel&#8217;s tomb drastically. Access to the holy site is no longer possible through public buses, rather one must be transferred to a special bullet proof vehicle and travel via a route that is surrounded by tall walls. <\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the site complain that the only view left is one of concrete walls on all sides. <\/p>\n<p>Watch &#8220;Rachel&#8217;s Tomb &#8211; A Special Report&#8221; produced by Arutz Sheva TV by clicking on the video within the article.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>Just as this blog asked in February and ask again now; What evil lurks in the hearts of this evil regime? <\/strong>   <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/17\/kever-rachel-encaged-by-idf-does-the-same-fate-await-rachel-imeinu-as-the-abandoned-kever-yosef\/\"><strong>Does the Same Fate Await the Kever of Rachel Imeinu as the Abandoned Kever Yosef?<\/strong><\/a>   <strong> MB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel&#8217;s Tomb Walled in From All Sides Kever Rachel in years past Full Text; The holy site is located in Bethlehem, a short 3-minute drive from southern Jerusalem. Access to the site was always a simple matter, with public Egged buses and private cars bringing thousands to the tomb to pray. But the Israel government&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}