Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to the Allon Plan, the city of Hebron would lie in Jordanian territory, and in order to determine Israel's own border, Allon suggested building a Jewish settlement adjacent to Hebron. [170] David Ben-Gurion also considered that Hebron was the one sector of the conquered territories that should remain under Jewish control and be open ...
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 ...
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 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.
In 164 BCE, Hebron was conquered by Judas Maccabeus who destroyed the city and its fortifications. [13] In 112 BCE, the Hasmonean prince John Hyrcanus I waged war against the Edomites, who were given the choice of expulsion or conversion. Thus, Hebron became a Jewish city, with a population that included former Edomites.
The Book of Joshua says: "Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba; this Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim." (Joshua 14:15). [4] [better source needed] It is also one of the places listed in Nehemiah where some of the people of Judah were living. There is no reference to Hebron in Nehemiah, however. [5] [better source needed]
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. [1] 1187 - Saladin in power. [4] [5]
Carmel was an ancient Israelite town in Judea, lying about 11.2 kilometres (7.0 mi) from Hebron, on the southeastern frontier of Mount Hebron. [1] [2] According to the Bible, Saul erected a victory monument in Carmel to memorialize his triumph over Amalek. [3] The site is generally identified with the Arab village of al-Karmil. [3]