In the ancient city of Hebron, twenty miles south of Jerusalem, the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people are buried. When Sarah died, according to the biblical narrative, Abraham purchased ...

Although a Jewish community was maintained in Hebron since the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews in the city were persecuted by Crusaders. After the 14th century, the Muslim rulers forbade ...

In 422 BCE (some historians say 586 BCE) the Kingdom of Judah, including the city of Hebron, was conquered by the Babylonians who exiled its inhabitants to modern day Iraq. The Babylonian Empire ...

And so it was following the miraculous victory of the Six-Day War that we returned to the Biblical city of our forefathers in Hebron and to the ancient site of the Cave of the Patriarchs – Me ...

It has become a moving and unifying tradition in Israel to read the Torah portion of Chayei Sara, which includes the story of Abraham purchasing the Cave of the Patriarchs from Efron the Hittite ...

Marzel, lives in the holy city of Hebron, and has been keeping the flame alive for those who believe in settling every inch of the ancient Land of Israel. I was recently invited by Marzel to visit ...

OU Israel publishes special video detailing the history of Me'arat Hamachpelah, the Cave of the Patriarchs, and the ancient gems of the holy city of Hebron, and why it is so important to the ...

HEBRON, West Bank — Josh Drill had walked only a few dozen steps in this contested ancient city when he bent double in the glaring sun and retched. All it had taken was a challenge from an armed ...

and daggers marched through the Jewish quarter of Hebron,” writes Yardena Schwartz. Before the day was over, the streets of the ancient city in British Mandate Palestine ran red with blood ...

It added the prehistoric site of “Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan (State ... after the agency described a shrine in the biblical city of Hebron as a Palestinian World Heritage site that was ...

The falafel shop owner is also from Hebron, another ancient city whose inhabitants have traditionally been a pillar of ...