Significant plans have been put into place to restore Israeli sovereignty over the tomb of Joseph, one of the most important religious sites in Judaism.
The tomb is believed to be the burial place of the biblical figure of Joseph, who’s embalmed bones the Jewish people took out of slavery with them in Egypt and buried in Israel.
The site is located in Shechem, an area of Judea and Samaria under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1995.
Since the Accords, arabs attacked and murdered Jewish pilgrims visiting the site so regularly that in 2000, after a soldier was killed in a particularly brutal attack, the IDF withdrew its permanent presence, and visits became tightly controlled, occurring only monthly at most, and at night.
