Tel Abbad

The Motives Behind the Israeli Civil Incursion at Tel Abbad

After weeks of failed attempts, and under the pretext of praying at the tomb of Rabbi Rav Achi, a 4th-century scholar from the Babylonian exile period, several hundred Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews, escorted by the Israeli military, crossed the Blue Line (the technical border demarcated by the UN) yesterday at a location known as Tel Abbad, near the ...