Nablus, the Roman name for the ancient Biblical city of Shechem, is where Joseph’s bones were buried after Israel transported them out of Egypt during the Pessach (Passover). Located just up the road from here in Shomron (Samaria), today, Shechem is an Arab Muslim city under the Palestinian Authority, and is one of the main sources of Islamic jihadist terrorism in Shomron.

Despite all this, Jews have been going there to pay their respects to Joseph, as well as to pray–monthly under great IDF military protection–but since 2000 in the Second Intifada, only at night.

That changed yesterday:

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Jerusalem Post, 2026-01-30 pg 1.
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-884937