Posts tagged IDF
Pilgrims visit site of Jesus’s Baptism, now cleared of landmines

One of Christianity and Judaism’s holiest sites was seeded with more than 6,500 landmines and booby traps inside churches by the Israeli military beginning in 1968.

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Thousands of Jewish worshippers pack Hebron to celebrate the life of Sarah

Some 30,000 Israeli, American, British and French Jews thronged Hebron and the adjoining town of Kiryat Arba on Nov. 22 and 23 to celebrate the Torah reading of Chayei Sarah, which details how Abraham the Patriarch purchased a double cave in which to bury his wife Sarah.

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