VIDEO: Kever Yonah Destroyed By ISIS Terrorists in Iraq

[Tag-MehirTzedek]

www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/245840/video-kever-yonah-destroyed-by-isis-terrorists-in-iraq.html

[muman613]

Was this really Jonah's grave?  I never heard he had a grave site there.  If it is, I say Israel should someday declare a milchemet reshut to expand its borders beyond the Euphrates so that the prophet can be properly commemorated.

And our heros Mordechai and Ester are buried in a tomb in Iran...

I don't think it is required for us to expand beyond the Torahs vision of greater Israel. The tomb of Yonah should have been moved to Israel.

[muman613]

The true location of the Kever is disputed. There are several reported sites according to this :

http://ohr.edu/this_week/people_of_the_land/3415

The Prophet Yonah is familiar to us mostly because the entire Book of Yonah is read at the Mincha service on Yom Kippur. Where he is buried is a matter of dispute with sites as varied as Zippori, Kfar Kanah, Hebron, Halhul, Kfar Azza, Tiberias, Ashdod and Mosul in Iraq mentioned as possibilities.

Rabbi Chayim ben Altar, author of the Ohr Hachayim commentary on Chumash, is reported to have said that when he lived in Peki'in he visited the tomb of Yonah in Kfar Mash'had. This village lies between the Beit Rimon junction and Nazareth and an Arab mosque marks the assumed location of the prophet's tomb.