David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.

Jacob was finally reunited with his father Isaac in Mamre ( outside Hebron ).

This was the last time he would ever see his son in Hebron.

Having been informed by spies that they were too strong, it was decided that they would flank Hebron by going further East, around the Dead Sea.

Likewise as well within the Christian " Tomb of the Cocks " in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, " we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch ".

The deadliest Jewish terrorist attack was when Dr. Baruch Goldstein, supporter of Kach, shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers, and wounded another 150, at the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron, in 1994.

* 23 September: A 48-year-old man was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.

* 8 October: A 51-year-old Israeli was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron.

Hebron was originally a Canaanite royal city.

The Hebron of the Bible was centered on what is now known as Tel Rumeida, while its ritual centre was located at Elonei Mamre.

It was in Hebron again that Absalom has himself declared king and then raises a revolt against his father David.

After the destruction of the First Temple, most of the Jewish inhabitants of Hebron were exiled, and according to the conventional view, their place was taken by Edomites in about 587 BCE.

During the first war against the Romans, Hebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and later burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis.

Hebron was one of the last cities of Palestina Prima to fall to the Islamic invasion in the 7th century.

The prophet Muhammad arranged for Hebron, Beit Einun and surrounding villages to be a part of al-Dari's domain ; this was implemented during Umar's reign as caliph.

A royal domain, Hebron was handed over to Philip of Milly in 1161 and joined with the Seigneurie of Transjordan.

A bishop was appointed to Hebron in 1168 and the new cathedral church of St Abraham was built in the southern part of the Haram.

In 1167 the episcopal see of Hebron was created along with that of Kerak and Sebastia ( the tomb of John the Baptist ).

But soon after his departure, feuding broke out and in 1241 the Templars mounted a damaging raid on what was, by now, Muslim Hebron, in violation of agreements.

The mill at Artas was built in 1307 where the profits from its income were dedicated to the Hospital in Hebron.

In the region of Palestine he founded his own institution in the town of Hebron called Knesses Yisroel-" Gathering of Israel ", which moved to Jerusalem following the massacre of Jews during the 1929 Palestine riots in which many of the yeshiva students perished.

It was founded near the city of Hebron on Palestinian land in the Judean Hills of the West Bank.

In 1968, a group of Jews led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger and Rabbi Eliezer Waldman founded Kiryat Arba on the eastern outskirts of Hebron.

Kfar Etzion was a kibbutz founded in 1943, about 2 km east of the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.

The other Church, Hebron Church was founded in 1934 by Ernest Dyer, who cycled to the village from Keynsham to run a Sunday School.

Hebron Academy, founded in 1804, is a small, independent, college preparatory boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades six through postgraduate.

Hebron Academy was founded by Revolutionary War veterans from Massachusetts who received land in the District of Maine as compensation for their military service.

As a reaction to the trauma induced in children in Hebron, the Palestinian Child Arts Center ( PCAC ), a non-governmental, nonprofit organization was founded.

After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bloody attack during Sukkot ( October 9, 1968 ), in which a grenade was thrown, apparently by a Hebron boy, onto the mosque stairs wounding 47 Israeli and foreign visitors, the government agreed to legitimize Levinger's wildcat settlement by establishing a town on the outskirts of the city in an abandoned military base, which was named Kiryat Arba ,' as if ,' Gershom Gorenberg writes, ' to make the place instantly ancient .'.

Blain of the Hebron Church of Associate Reform Presbyterians petitioned for a post office named after his church.

Their meeting places sometimes have Bible names, e. g., " Ebenezer ," " Hebron ," " Shiloh " and " Bethel "; sometimes they are named after the street on which they are found, e. g. Curzon Street Gospel Hall, Derby ; sometimes after the locality, e. g. Ballynagarrick Gospel Hall.

Hebron is the patriarch from whom the region is named.

Sheshai () was a clan of Anakim living in Hebron named for a son of Anak in the Holy Bible ( Numbers 13: 22 ).

In the Book of Exodus, Kohath is described as having four sons-Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel-with Amram marrying a woman named Jochebed, and becoming the biological father of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Although a modern day settlement exists east of Hebron named Kiryat Arba, its relation is not known.

Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the gate of Hebron.

* 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.

Barely a week after the defeat, Arafat crossed the Jordan River in disguise and entered the West Bank, where he set up recruitment centers in Hebron, the Jerusalem area and Nablus, and began attracting both fighters and financiers for his cause.

* January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.

Jews would not return to Hebron until after the Six Day War in 1967.

In 1260, after the Mongol raids into Palestine, one of which touched Hebron, Sultan Baibars's Mamluk rule established peace.

Hebron in 1839, after a drawing by David Roberts ( painter ) | David Roberts

At this time, following attempts by the Lithuanian government to draft yeshiva students into the army, the Lithuanian Knesses Yisroel relocated to Hebron, after consultations between Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Yechezkel Sarna and Moshe Mordechai Epstein.

The day after the truce agreement Shaykh Muhamad ' Ali al-Ja ' bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter of King Abdullah I of Jordan attended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a resolution calling for the unification of the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan, only to find many other notables reluctant to cede their claim to Palestine.

Supporters of Jewish resettlement within Hebron see their program as the reclamation of an important heritage dating back to Biblical times, which was dispersed or, it is argued, stolen by Arabs after the massacre of 1929.

Two Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack on the road to Hebron On March 27, 2001, 16 days after settlers had celebrated Purim with a march through the city in which some settler children were dressed up as Baruch Goldstein, a Palestinian sniper targeted and killed the Jewish baby Shalhevet Pass.

In 1981 Seev Jevin, the former director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, entered the passage after a group of Jewish settlers from Hebron had entered the chamber via the entrance near the mihrab and discovered the square stone in the round chamber that concealed the cave entrance.

The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second holiest site for Jews ( after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ), and is also venerated by Christians and Muslims, both of whom have traditions which maintain that the site is the burial place of three Biblical couples: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah.

Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, after the American Civil War.

On 12 May 1996, the TIPH observers were reinstated, this time with only Norwegian members, to be replaced with a new mission after the IDF ’ s redeployment in Hebron.

Because of the constant and consistent Arab violations of the Oslo Accords, Wye River Memorandum, and Hebron agreements, after the failure of the Camp David Accord, the lives lost in the Oslo War and the Second Lebanon war, and after the rise of Hamas to power in the Palestinian Authority, the party wants to declare all agreements with the PA as null and void.

The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second holiest site for Jews ( after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ), and is also venerated by Christians and Muslims, both of whom have traditions which maintain that the site is the burial place of three Biblical couples: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah.