As seen in video above, painters, metalworkers, electricians, gardeners and stoneworkers were able to clean, paint and replace the marble covering of the tomb in that time.
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The Jewish holy site of Joseph’s Tomb was restored on Tuesday following Palestinian riots last month that damaged the site.
Overnight, around 50 civilian workers came to the site under escort by the Israel Defense Forces to make the necessary repairs.
Regional Council head Yossi Dagan called it “an historic and moving moment”, Arutz Sheva reported.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas officially condemned the arson attack on Joseph’s Tomb, seemingly following similar statements by a few in the worldwide community, but he and other P.A. officials openly praise those carrying out terror attacks from the group’s headquarters in Ramallah.
Joseph’s Tomb shrine outside the West Bank was torched by Palestinian rioters last week, but it was restored Monday night over a five-hour period that was captured on film.
Dagan called the torching of the site a “national disgrace”, and criticized the decision to do the work in the middle of the night. “Our coming here in the dead of night, like thieves, to a place that is unquestionably ours”.
Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, the site was to remain under Israeli control.
The IDF’s regional commander Col. Shai Kleper and Samaria Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon were present during the repairs. But Jewish worshippers often sneak into the site to pray.
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The Israel Police said that while the fix operation was carried out in coordination with it, officers arrested seven people, six of them minors, overnight for entering the compound without obtaining a permit.
