U.S. rabbi gets rare permission to visit Yitzhak Hall at Tomb of Patriarchs

There was an uncommon sight Saturday night at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, when the religious site’s Yitzhak Hall, which is usually only open to Muslim worshippers, was also opened to Jews.

Jewish worshippers have seldom been allowed in the hall since 1994, when Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein shot dead 29 Muslims at prayer there, before he was killed by the worshippers.

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