Jews, mostly from Israel and Morocco, have made pilgr/images there since Egypt's 1979 peace deal with Israel.
However, they were prevented by court orders in 2001 and 2004.
And in 2012 the festival was cancelled by the Egyptian authorities because of security concerns after the uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign.
Monday's ruling will make the ban permanent unless a higher court overturns it on appeal.
The court also ordered the government to remove the tomb from the national antiquities and monuments list.
Abuhatzeira, also known as Abir Yaakov, was a rabbi and mystic from Morocco who died in Damanhur, some 160km (100 miles) north-west of Cairo in 1880. He was the grandfather of Yisrael Abuhatzeira, the noted kabbalist known as the "Baba Sali".
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