ISIS Out: Israeli Engineers Renovating Kever Of Nachum Hanavi

Two Israeli engineers Yackov Shafer and Meir Ronen visited Iraq to help assist in the renovation of the compound housing the Kever of Nachum Hanavi.
The two are part of the “Engineers with No Limits” organization, and recently undertook the dangerous trip to the compound located just 30 miles from Mosul where ISIS fighters still controlled parts of the city until two days ago -according to Chezi Simantov from Arutz 10.

Despite the ongoing bloody war raging just a few miles away, the engineers made their way to the compound to survey the damage and to plan the renovation of the ancient Makom Kadosh.

In the past, when Iraq still had a significant Jewish presence, the compound was frequented by many Mispallelim who came to daven there.
In the last few years the compound sustained heavy damage as a result of the intense fighting between ISIS and the Iraqi army in the area.
Until just a few months ago, the Islamic state controlled the nearby cities of Bitnai and Tel-Askof, but fortunately the terror State never took control of the compound itself, located in the outskirts of the cities.
“Clearly had the Islamic state taken control nothing would have been left of the Kever” says Yackov, referring to the infamous ISIS ideology of destroying anything of historical significance that does not resonate with their skewed philosophy.
“The Kever itself remained whole but part of the retaining walls of the structure collapsed, and there is a danger of the entire structure collapsing.
Currently, it’s a race against time to renovate it”, explains Meir.
The project “will cost about 200-300 hundred thousand dollars, and that is just to prevent the structure from collapsing, and in additional 2-3 million to complete the full renovation”, says Meir.

The ancient structure is assumed to date back 2,600 years, to the days following the churban of the first Beis Hamikdash.

Translated by Eli B.

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