MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews are visiting the Galilee sites in northern Israel during their summer holidays.

MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images. The mount is usually a closed military area due to its location along northern Israel's border with Lebanon and Syria.

MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images. UN soldiers stand next to Lebanese onlookers (back) as they gather opposite ultra-Orthodox Jews praying during a visit to the site which they believe to be Rabbi Ashi's tomb, divided by a border electric fence, along northern Israel's border with Lebanon near Kibbutz Manara on August 4, 2009. The border fence passes right through the centre of the disputed tomb, which Israel considers to be the burial place of Rabbi Ashi but Lebanon says another man, Shiite cleric Sheikh Abbad, is buried there.

MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images. An Israeli soldier stands guard as ultra-Orthodox Jews visit the site which they believe to be Rabbi Ashi's tomb, divided by a border electric fence, along northern Israel's border with Lebanon near Kibbutz Manara on August 4, 2009.