Maariv – Adapted

Last week, while protecting 1,500 illegal settlers who arrived in 30 buses to perform Talmudic rituals at Yusuf's tomb near Nablus, an IDF officer and three soldiers were injured.

For a time, the Tomb of Yusuf has been the center of incidents, confrontations, and injuries among the Israeli army and those who come to visit the tomb. The practice of prone posture and praying at the prophets' tombs, as it occurs in the Tomb of Yusuf, is typically not a part of Jewish traditions. It was a pagan habit that Jews in Spain during the "Golden Age" adopted. All kinds of rituals performed at prophets' tombs are forbidden.

It is crucial to note that the "sanctity" of this strange phenomenon is mainly given by those who benefit from it and make it a thriving financial business. Behind all of these ceremonies are transportation using buses, sales of merchandise, donations, and other activities.

It is incomprehensible that 1,500 illegal Israeli settlers would visit Yusuf's Tomb in one of the most sensitive and troublesome areas in the north of the occupied West Bank, coming to a pagan review of every current reality. Meanwhile, the Israeli military confronts so many incidents in the West Bank, and there is hardly a day without a fedayeen operation.

The fact that they don't care about this demonstrates both the rudeness of some people—some of whom serve in the army but don't bear the burden—and the fact that they are unconcerned with the challenging issues facing the entity and the army. It takes a lot of rudeness to force the army to protect those settlers in the circumstances mentioned here. The entrance to Joseph's grave would have been clearly and fully barred off if there had been a natural and impartial government, and it would have been locked up until the situation calmed down.