"A visit to Israel without seeing Rachel's Tomb is like going home and not seeing your mother." So says Evelyn Haies of the Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation, which is sponsoring a Rosh Chodesh (New Month) event this coming Sunday morning at a new property adjacent to the site. Rabbi Elchanan Bin-Nun of Yeshivat Beit Orot, as well as Atara Gur, will be delivering Torah lectures, and breakfast will be served. Bus transportation will be available (tel. 068-563-898), stopping at Beit Orot, the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood, the Great Synagogue, the OU Israel Center, and the Gilo junction.
Ten public Egged buses arrive at Rachel's Tomb daily - in marked contrast to the emptiness following its closure after the onset of the Oslo War. The abandonment came to an abrupt end in late 2000 when a group of 30 women walked, with their babies, to the holy site from the Gilo Junction. They were forcibly evacuated that afternoon - but were promised that civilians in bulletproof buses would be allowed to visit later that day. The situation has in fact improved, and the number of visitors has risen dramatically. A kollel (Torah study group) learns there daily.
Ten public Egged buses arrive at Rachel's Tomb daily - in marked contrast to the emptiness following its closure after the onset of the Oslo War. The abandonment came to an abrupt end in late 2000 when a group of 30 women walked, with their babies, to the holy site from the Gilo Junction. They were forcibly evacuated that afternoon - but were promised that civilians in bulletproof buses would be allowed to visit later that day. The situation has in fact improved, and the number of visitors has risen dramatically. A kollel (Torah study group) learns there daily.