The tomb had been expected to be opened Thursday to enable Jews to worship there to commemorate Jewish matriarch Rachel ... face of terrorist threats." -- BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) ...
A Palestinian man allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint near Rachel’s Tomb in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem, the Israeli army and media said Thursday.
"There is no place more worthy to pray to God and ask him to return the hostages than at the place of [the matriarch Rachel's] burial, and on the anniversary ...