Netanyahu 'Asked Rabbi to Allow Giving David's Tomb to Vatican'
jewsnews.co.il/2014/05/03/netanyahu-asked-rabbi-to-allow-giving-davids-tomb-to-vatican/An MK Says Netanyahu has contacted the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, asked for halakhic permission to make the move.
By Hezki Ezra, Gil Ronen
A Knesset Member said Thursday that Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef told him that the Prime Minister's bureau contacted him and asked to grant halakhic permission for Israel to hand over the Tomb of David to the Vatican.
The startling news was revealed by the Knesset Member during a tour of the Tomb of David by four MKs – Yoni Chetboun of the Jewish Home, who initiated the tour, Moshe Feiglin (Likud-Beytenu), Nissim Ze'ev (Shas), and Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism – UTJ).
The MKs were unanimous in declaring that they intend to do everything within their power to forestall any attempt to hand over the Tomb to the Vatican. There are also reports that not just the Tomb, but the entire Mount Zion compound is up for transfer. The MKs made clear that the zone is under Israeli sovereignty and will remain so.
There have been reports, recently, of a secret negotiation channel between the Vatican and the Israeli government, regarding the Tomb – and especially its second floor, which the Vatican calls the "Room of the Last Supper" – and the Mount Zion compound.
Officially, this report was denied by the government, with Deputy Minister Ze'ev Elkin taking to the Knesset podium to state that it was untrue.
However, the government has decided to place the exclusive authority regarding the holy sites in the hands of the prime minister – fueling speculation that a secret deal is indeed in the works.
The Vatican's attempts to gain a sovereign foothold on Mount Zion have been going on for year, but thus far unsuccessfully.
The visit to Israel by Pope Francis is less than a month away. This is a factor in the timing of the MKs' tour of the compound. A representative of the Religions Ministry's Department of Holy Sites was also present.
The MKs promised to pass a law making the Tomb of David an official holy site.
"For many years, the Vatican has been investing large sums in purchasing assets in Jerusalem, with the purpose of blurring the city's Jewish character," said Chetboun. "This trend must be blocked, and the Basic Law on Jerusalem, which forbids handing over sovereignty on parts of the city to foreign entities, must be enforced. Today's tour is only the beginning of the struggle, and we will bring more MKs here. The Tomb of David is a cornerstone of the city's Jewish history, we must safeguard it."
MK Feiglin said after the tour, "The attempts to transfer sovereignty over the Tomb of David to the Vatican are a direct continuation of the transfer of sovereignty in the Temple Mount to the Jordanians. The government of Israel is buying a false calm at the price of forfeiting our most sacred sites, under cover of darkness and against the law."
Alarm over Reported Deal with Vatican for Kever Dovid
Posted By Matzav Editor On April 20, 2014 @ 3:41 PM In Breaking News, Jewish Community, US & World | 6 Comments
Is there a secret deal between the Vatican and Israel to transfer control over Dovid Hamelech's kever to the Catholic church? An investigative report in Makor Rishon cites La Stampa Vatican Insider journalist Andrea Tornielli as saying that the deal has been nearly completed, and that Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin is in charge of the negotiations with the Vatican, but Israel denies any such deal.
Arutz Sheva [1] reports that the agreement allegedly contains two elements. The first is Israel's forgoing the levying of property tax and other taxes for all "churches, holy sites, prayer houses and cemeteries." The second is the transfer of the "Last Supper room" on the floor above the kever to the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (Custodia Terræ Sanctæ).
Rabbi Yaakov Sevilia, an activist for Kever Dovid, told Arutz Sheva Sunday that there is also a deal between Christians and Muslims, according to which the Muslims will retain control over the Har Habayis whereas Har Tzion will become Christian property. He cited journalist Gulio Meotti, who contributes regularly to Arutz Sheva, as the source for this knowledge.
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bs"dPlease see attached letter signed by Rav Eliashiv zt"l, Rav Auerbach zt"l, Rav Shteinman, Rav Kanievsky and Rav Kook and resigned again now by Rav Shteinman, Rav Kanievsky and Rav Kook.
Please watch a recent video of HaRav Kook addressing this matter of great concern. (Hebrew) and the text of the letter signed by the Gedoilim written in 1992.הזדעזענו לשמועה המרה, שעל אף הצעקות המחאות והאזהרות מסוף חודש אייר תשנ"ב, להפוך את הר-ציון למבצר של מוסדות נוצרים מיסיונריים ולאתר תיירות ובילויים, הכרוכים בחילול שבת המוני שיבטלו את אופיו המיוחד בקדושתו של ההר וסביבתו. וכמו כן עלול הדבר לגרום למכשולים קשים למוסדות התורה והחינוך שבשכנות, וכן להוות מטרד ומפגע רוחני חינוכי וסביבתי לאוכלוסיית הרובע היהודי - הסולדת משכנותם של מוסדות כגון אלו.ועל כן הננו פונים בזאת בתביעה נמרצת לכל מי שבידו לעכב ולמנוע מימושה של תוכנית זו, ובפרט לנציגי הציבור נאמני התורה והמצווה, להשתדל ולהפר את המזימה בכל מאמצי הכח האפשריים, ולשמור בכך על קדושת הר ציון שייבנה ויתכונן על אושיות התורה והיראה, ולאפשר למוסדות הקדושים שבו להתרחב ולהתבסס כרצון ה' יתברך, וכל העושים והמעשים בעניין קדוש זה יבורכו "מעם ה' השוכן בהר ציון" (ישעיהו ח) ויקוימו בנו הכתובים:"ובהר ציון תהיה פליטה" _יואל ג), "כי נחם ה' ציון ניחם כל חורבותיה" _ישעיהו נא).החותמים בחרדה לשלום עיר קודשנו ותפארתנוא.ל. שטינמןחיים קנייבסקישמחה הכהן קוקעל הנוסח חתמו בתשנ"ב גם הגר"ש אלישיב והגרש"ז אוירבךבשבט תשע"ד החתימו עליו שוב את שלושת הרבנים שלעיל.Government Plan to Hand King David's Tomb to the Vatican?
THE POPE'S ANTI-SEMITIC PLAN FOR JERUSALEM
--Published: Friday, April 04, 2014 4:25 PM
Giulio Meotti
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He has just prblished a book about the Vatican and Israel titled "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.
"The Pope will be received by "the President of the State of Palestine" (words taken from the Vatican official note).
Pope Francis' visit in the "holy land" will be a kind of final solution for the Jewish sovereignity over Jerusalem.
After visiting Amman, the Pope will be received by "the President of the State of Palestine" (words taken from the Vatican official note).
Then the Pope will be received in the "Phoenix Center of the Dhaisheh refugee camp". He will endorse the "inalienabile right" of millions of descendants of Palestinian Arab refugees to repossess the homes and villages that their grandparents and great-grandparents had lost in 1948, an act which would dismember the modern state of Israel.
The Vatican always presented the 1948 war as the source of an "injustice" committed by Israel when it "pushed away" the Palestinian Arabs.
Pope Francis will talk with the people in charge of the Ibdaa camp, whose main goal today is to educate Palestinian Arabs about the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe).
Does the Pope know that Dehaisheh has also been a notable breeding ground of suicide bombers? Will the Pope see the graffiti and poster glorifying the Arab terrorists who dismembered Jewish babies and mothers?Pope Francis will join the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem "in the building of the Great Council on the Esplanade of the Mosques". It will be an implicit recognition of Muslim hegemony over the Temple Mount, Judaism's most sacred site in the world. The Pope's visit is taken to mean that Islam and Christianity superseded the Jewish religion and have the right to "inherit" its holy places.
When the pontiff John Paul II ascended to the Temple Mount in 2000, he wasn't welcomed by any Israeli official, but by representatives of the Palestinian Authority, and the holy complex was bedecked in Arab flags. A few months later, the Intifada broke out leaving 1,600 dead and maimed Jews.
Does Pope Francis know that Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, who will join the Pope, last year declared that "the Hour of Resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews"?
Does Pope Francis know that Jerusalem's Mufti at funeral ceremonies for terrorists promoted terror against Israel, saying that the terrorists' souls "tell us to follow in their path"?
Does Pope Francis know that this Sheikh denied the existence of the Jewish Temples?
Francis will also celebrate a mass "in the room of the Cenacle in Jerusalem". Are Jews aware of the immense symbolism of this event?The Cenacle lies on Mount Zion, where David and Solomon, Jewish kings of Judea, are considered by some researchers, to also be buried. The Pope's mass will be the culmination of a long campaign by the Catholic Church to regain religious stewardship over the place where Jesus is supposed to have broken bread and drunk wine with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.
The Pope will also visit Yad Vashem memorial. It is not a gesture of empathy for the Jewish people, but of perfidy, because the Holocaust has become for the Church the counterweight to the recognition of the Jewish condition in politics and history, the recognition of Jews as a people, along with Israel and Zionism.
The Pope will have a tepid moment of prayer at the Wailing Wall and will spend a few hours mourning for the Holocaust's Jews. But for the rest of the time, the Pope will be there for the Muslims, in order to recognize their genocidal "right of return" and their apocalyptic right to get control over Jewish holy sites.
Why don't rabbis and the ordinary Israelis organize moments of protest against the Pope's Islamic-friendly visit?
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