 A nearby town called Damityo ( south of Damanhur) contains the tomb of the Yaakov Abuhatzeira (1805–1880), a Moroccan rabbi who died there in 1880 while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.The site is visited each year by hundreds of devotees, with protests from local inhabitants.A high court in Egypt officially removed the tomb from a list of sites of historical value, so Egyptian government protection stopped.