West Bank – Shortly before midnight on Friday morning residents of the Salfit-district village of Kifl Haris reported that dozens of Israeli military vehicles and bus-loads of religious Jews entering the area for midnight pilgrimage.
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Locals estimated some 3,000 religious Jews entered the area as protecting troops set up checkpoints and barricades around the small tomb of Joshua Ben Nun.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said there were 800 visitors accompanied by Israeli soldiers. The group stayed in the area from midnight to 5 a.m.
According to Israeli news site Ynet, the visitors found the tomb “desecrated” by Arabic graffiti with slogans like “we are the defenders of the national project” and “conciliation, speak to you enemy through bullets.”
I can understand davening at the kevorim, but whats with the dancing in the middle of the night in an arab village when there are security concerns
2 # 1 u are most likely not a chasid , and it looks to me that those dancing are chasidem from braslove , may G-d bless them they are wonderfull people , they have that simcha like lubavitchers b.h. one day u will understand it when moshich comes.