A funeral procession for the Ashkelon bones

A FUNERAL PROCESSION for the bones from the Ashkelon graves:

Barzilai bones get Eda Haredit funeral

By JONAH MANDEL (Jerusalem Post)
21/05/2010 03:56

Children hold anti-Zionist signs.

Hundreds of members of the anti-Zionist Eda Haredit communal organization congregated in the capital on Thursday afternoon, to “beg the forgiveness of the holy bones” recently excavated to make way for an emergency room in Ashkelon, protest the “continued desecration of graves around Israel” and conduct a funeral procession, but not a burial ceremony, for the remains.

A simple white van with black drapes hiding its content, sent by the Ministry of Religious Services, was one of the centerpieces of the event that was held at Kikar Zupnick in the Geula neighborhood, as it contained the ancient bones that the Antiquities Authority deemed to be those of pagans and transferred to the ministry.

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Unfortunately, the procession turned violent at the end.