Six years later, while on pilgrimage to Hebron, Baibars promulgated an edict forbidding Christians and Jews from entering the sanctuary, and the climate became less tolerant of Jews and Christians than it had been under the prior Ayyubid rule.

* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

Two of the more famous incidents occurring during these riots were the August 23 and August 24 1929 Hebron massacre, in which 65 – 68 Jews were killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron.

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

* August 23 and August 24 – The 1929 Hebron massacre, in which 65 – 68 Jews are killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron.

HaParchi in 1322 does not record any Jews in Hebron.

With the Holy Land incorporated into the Ottoman empire, a slow influx of Jews performing aliyah took place, and some Sephardi kabbalists settled in Hebron.

In 1820 it was reported that there were about 1, 000 Jews in Hebron, and in 1823, the Lubavitcher Hasidic movement established a community.

In 1838, Hebron had an estimated 1, 500 taxable Muslim households, in addition to some 240 Jews, 41 of whom were tax-payers.

Hebron was ' deeply Bedouin and Islamic ', and ' bleakly conservative ' in its religious outlook, with a strong tradition of hostility to Jews.

In the 1929 Hebron massacre, Arab rioters slaughtered some 64 to 67 Jewish men, women and children and wounded 60, and Jewish homes and synagogues were ransacked ; 435 Jews survived by virtue of the shelter and assistance offered them by their Arab neighbours, who hid them.

Standing orders for Israeli soldiers on duty in Hebron disallowed them from firing on fellow Jews, even if they were shooting Arabs.

Following the 1929 Hebron massacre, access by Jews was severely restricted by British Mandate authorities.

Olmert opined, " As a Jew, I was ashamed at the scenes of Jews opening fire at innocent Arabs in Hebron.

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.

Babylonian Judah suffered a steep decline in both economy and population and lost the Negev, the Shephelah, and part of the Judean hill country, including Hebron, to encroachments from Edom and other neighbours.

When the sons of Israel ( Jacob ) returned to Hebron from their second trip, they came back with twenty additional donkeys carrying all kinds of goods and supplies as well as Egyptian transport wagons.

* December 11: Ahmad Ali Darwish al-Qawasma, 14, of Hebron, died of head wounds sustained Dec. 8 from IDF gunfire at close range during clashes.

* 15 November: 12 people killed, nine soldiers and three paramilitary security guards from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team, and 15 wounded in Hebron when Palestinian militants drew security forces into an ambush.

Hebron is a busy hub of West Bank trade, responsible for roughly a third of the area's gross domestic product, largely due to the sale of marble from quarries.

The name " Hebron " traces back to two Semitic roots, which coalesce in the form ḥbr, having reflexes in Hebrew and Amorite and denoting a range of meanings from " colleague ", " unite ", " friend " or " to be noisy ".

Later, the biblical narrative has King David reign from Hebron for some seven years.

One Islamic tradition has it that the Prophet alighted in Hebron during his night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, and the mosque in the city is said to conserve one of his shoes.

At one of these villages is a spring, where water flows out from under a stone, but in no great abundance ; and it is conducted by a channel, cut in the ground, to a place outside the town ( of Hebron ), where they have constructed a covered tank for collecting the water ... The Sanctuary ( Mashad ), stands on the southern border of the town .... it is enclosed by four walls.

In 1106, an Egyptian campaign thrust into southern Judea and almost succeeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under Baldwin I of Jerusalem, who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off.

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

Many visitors wrote about Hebron over the next two centuries, among them Nachmanides ( 1270 ), Ishtori HaParchi ( 1322 ) and Rabbi Meshulam from Volterra ( 1481 ).

By 1523, a Karaite community, consisting of 10 families, is recorded as living in Hebron, It was from them that, in 1540, Rabbi Malkiel Ashkenazi bought a courtyard ( El Cortijo ) and the house of prayer which he converted to the Sephardi Abraham Avinu Synagogue.

Apart from glassware, it was a major exporter of dibse, grape sugar, from the famous Dabookeh grapestock characteristic of Hebron.

An estimated 750 Muslims from Hebron had been drafted as soldiers, and some 500 of them were killed.

Hebron, headed by its nazir Abd ar-Rahman Amr, declined to supply its quota of conscripts for the army and suffered badly from the Egyptian campaign to crush the uprising.

Kamil and his army marched towards Hebron in July 1855, with representatives from the English, French and other Western consulates as witnesses.

From 1874 the Hebron district as part of the Sanjak of Jerusalem was administered directly from Istanbul.

Late in the 19th century the production of Hebron glass declined due to competition from imported European glass-ware, however, the products of Hebron continued to be sold, particularly among the poorer populace and travelling Jewish traders from the city.

After four years he decided to declare himself king, sleeping with his father's concubines, then raised a revolt at Hebron, the former capital.

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.

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

The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.

Other children are born to Abraham by another wife, Keturah, among whose descendants are the Midianites, and he dies in a prosperous old age and is buried in his tomb at Hebron.

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.

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

Hebron continued to constitute an important local economic centre, given its strategic position along trading routes, but, as is shown by the discovery of seals at Lachish with the inscription lmlk Hebron ( to the king.

The Rashidun Caliphate established rule over Hebron without resistance in 638, and converted the Byzantine church at the site of Abraham's tomb into a mosque.

He further recorded that " They grow at Hebron for the most part barley, wheat being rare, but olives are in abundance.

After Baruch Goldstein's massacre of Palestinians at the Mosque in Hebron, rabbi Arthur Waskow argued that Goldstein had decided to ' blot out the memory of Amalek ' by machine-gunning the Palestinian worshippers, and commented:

Though the Bible has Joseph buried in Shechem ( the present-day Palestinian city of Nablus ), Jewish aggadic tradition conserved the idea that he wished to be interred at Hebron, and the Islamic version may reflect this.

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