The manager of the water company in the Ukrainian city of
Uman promised, over the weekend, that tractors involved in an infrastructure
project would leave the area near the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslav,
according to the Hamevasser newspaper.
Yeshiva students in the area had
demonstrated against the work, viewing it as a threat to desecrate the
pilgrimage site. Attempts by local rabbis to contact the mayor were in vain
because he was on vacation.
The international effort reached Israel, where religious and
Knesset leaders turned to former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman to see if his pull would
work through Israel's ambassador to the Ukraine and it apparently did, as
witnessed by the weekend telephone call between the water company and the rabbi
who couldn't reach the mayor.
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