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The Old City of Hebron (Arabic: البلدة القديمة الخليل Hebrew: עיר העתיקה של חברון) is the historic city centre of Hebron in the West Bank, Palestine. The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally started elsewhere, at Tel Rumeida, which is approximately 200 meters (660 ft) west of ...
Racial segregation in the city with a road block with Hebrew inscription "מוות לערבים" meaning "Death to Arabs" Hebron was the one city excluded from the interim agreement of September 1995 to restore rule over all Palestinian West Bank cities to the Palestinian Authority. [196]
The history of the Jews in Hebron refers to the residence of Jews in Hebron almost continuously, from Biblical times until today. According to the Bible, Abraham settled in Hebron and purchased the Cave of the Patriarchs as a burial place for his wife Sarah. The biblical tradition asserts that the cave is the final resting site for Abraham ...
As such Hebron is the second holiest city to Jews, and is one of the four cities where Israelite biblical figures purchased land (Abraham bought a field and a cave east of Hebron from the Hittites (Genesis 23:16-18), King David bought a threshing floor at Jerusalem from the Jebusite Araunah (2 Samuel 24:24), Jacob bought land outside the walls ...
The Hebron massacre was the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine. The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were ransacked. The massacre was perpetrated by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of ...
The city of Hebron and the rest of the major Palestinian population centers in the West Bank were not included in the initial agreement. [57] The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre committed by Baruch Goldstein , an Israeli-American settler in February 1994, left 29 Palestinian Muslims dead and scores injured.
990 BCE - Capital of David of Israel relocated from Hebron to Jerusalem (approximate date). [1] 164 BCE - Hebron sacked by forces of Judas Maccabeus. [1] 638 - Hebron taken by Muslim forces. [2] 1168 - Hebron taken by crusaders. [3] 1170 - Traveler Benjamin of Tudela visits city.
The Hebrew Bible describes Hebron as the home of patriarchs Abraham and Jacob and as all the patriarchs final resting place. It is also considered King David's first capital city. Synagogue desecrated during the 1929 Hebron massacre. In the mid-19th century, Hebron was small town with a population of around 10,000, the majority of whom were ...