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Article: Yeshiva head calls for enlarging Israeli area around Joseph's Tomb
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- Jerusalem Post
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- September 30, 1996
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HERB KEINON
Jerusalem Post
09-30-1996
SETTLEMENT leaders yesterday called on the government to expand the area around Joseph's Tomb that is under Israeli control, and to fundamentally change security at the site. Six IDF soldiers were killed on Thursday defending the tomb.
"The fighting proved that the notion that the soldiers will guard the tomb, and that Palestinian soldiers will keep the Palestinian masses away from the IDF, is dead," said Eli Rosenfeld, director of the Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva in the compound.
"This situation is insufferable," Rosenfeld said. "The IDF has to organize in such a way that it does not have to depend on the Palestinians to guard them. The IDF has to provide ...