Yesha Council chairman Danny Dayan on Tuesday slammed Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, after he said that the Machpelah Cave and Kever Rachel were "Palestinian sites." Dayan said that Abbas, "a man who for his doctorate work denied the Holocaust, is outdoing himself now by denying our connection to Jewish history. He is trying to deny the existence of the Jewish people. But there is nothing to be done about the fact that the fathers and mothers of the nation are buried in Hevron, and it is where King David had a capital," Dayan said.