Jews Demand Gov't Respect Jewish Religious Rights to Jericho (Israel, Biblical)

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Jews Demand Gov't Respect Jewish Religious Rights in Jericho

As the IDF considers withdrawing from Jericho, Jews from the region and former students of the Jericho yeshiva want Jewish religious rights at ancient sites in the Biblical city to be restored.

“If they insist on giving away Jericho to the PA yet again and want to see some level of sincerity exhibited by them,” says says David HaLevi, who lives in Mevo’ot Yericho, on the outskirts of Jericho, "can’t they at least restore Jewish rights to access our holy sites?"

The right to a Jewish presence at Jericho’s synagogues was enshrined since the Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue was discovered beneath an Arab house after Israel conquered Jericho in the 1967 Six Day War and even preserved under the ill-fated Oslo Accords, which transferred control over the Jericho area to the Palestinian Authority in 1993. The synagogue, dating from the Byzantine period, boasted an intricate mosaic floor depicting a menorah and a shofar (ram's horn), with the Hebrew inscription: "Peace unto Israel."


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=78241

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