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t. e. The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre or the Hebron massacre, [1] was a shooting massacre carried out by Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and extremist of the far-right ultra- Zionist Kach movement. On 25 February 1994, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, which had overlapped in ...
The Hebron massacre was the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. [1] The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed.
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 ...
J. D. Vance. James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American venture capitalist, author, and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023. [1] [2] A member of the Republican Party, he came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy . Born in Middletown, Ohio, Vance studied ...
Coordinates: The ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Jewish Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron is part of the wider Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Hebron has a Palestinian majority, consisting of an estimated 208,750 citizens (2015) [1] and a small Jewish minority, variously numbered between 500 and 800. [2]
Batallion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah. " Batallion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah " is a viral amateur dance video in the flash mob style produced by soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The video was filmed in 2010 by soldiers serving in the IDF's Nahal Brigade. It was viewed more than 1.6 million times online in the first few days after ...
The Hebron Hills, also known as Mount Hebron ( Arabic: جبل الخليل, romanized : Jabal al-Khalīl, Hebrew: הר חברון, romanized : Har Hevron ), are a mountain ridge, geographic region, and geologic formation, constituting the southern part of the Judean Mountains. [1] The Hebron Hills are located in the southern West Bank.
Mamre ( / ˈmæmri /; Hebrew: מַמְרֵא ), full Hebrew name Elonei Mamre, ' Oaks of Mamre', refers to an ancient religious site originally focused on a single holy tree, growing "since time immemorial" at Hebron in Canaan. [9] At its first location, Khirbet Nimra, a pagan tree cult predated the biblical narrative. [10]