The Israeli Knesset voted to dismantle a shrine at the grave of a Jewish settler who killed 29 Muslim worshipers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The grave of Dr. Baruch Goldstein, who was killed by Arab survivors of the February 1994 massacre, has become a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists.
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