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Article: Rabbinical Students Return to Joseph's Tomb
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- Israel Faxx
- Article date:
- December 2, 1996
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By Patricia Golan (VOA-Jerusalem)
Jewish seminary students have returned to their studies at Joseph's Tomb in Palestinian-ruled Nablus in the West Bank. The students had left in September after bloody clashes left six Israeli soldiers and one Palestinian dead. Joseph's Tomb is the only part of Nablus still under Israeli military control. Believed to be the site of the biblical figure Joseph, the shrine is holy to Jews and Muslims.
Last September, violence erupted throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to ...