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  2. Cave of the Patriarchs - Wikipedia

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    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Holy site in Hebron, Palestine "Machpelah" redirects here. For the historic site in the US, see Machpelah (Townsville, North Carolina). For other uses, see Machpelah Cemetery. Cave of the Patriarchs מְעָרַת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה الحرم الإبراهيمي Southern view of the ...

  3. List of burial places of Abrahamic figures - Wikipedia

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    Islam: Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, West Bank, Some others consider Joseph to have been buried next to the Cave of the Patriarchs, where a mediaeval structure known as the kalah (castle) is now located. Some archaeologists believe that the site in Nablus is only the tomb of a Sufi Muslim Shaykh named Yusuf, and not Joseph himself. Benjamin

  4. Cave of the Patriarchs massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre [2] or the Hebron massacre, [3] was a mass shooting carried out by Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and extremist of the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement.

  5. History of the Jews in Hebron - Wikipedia

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    He visited the Cave of the Patriarchs with the "guardian of the cave" and made a sketch of it. [19] [20] He found 20 Jewish families living in the city at that time. When Rabbi Moses Basola's visited in 1521, he also found 20 Jewish families. [21] In the 15th century, Jewish refugees from Venice who worked in the glass industry arrived in Hebron.

  6. Four Holy Cities - Wikipedia

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    Jerusalem has been the holiest city in Judaism and the spiritual center of the Jewish people since the 10th century BC when the site was chosen during the lifetime of King David to be the location of the Holy Temple. [3] The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is the burial place of the Jewish patriarchs: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and ...

  7. Old City of Hebron - Wikipedia

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    The Old City is built around the Cave of the Patriarchs, the traditional burial site of the biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs, and venerated by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The Old City is a sensitive location in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron.

  8. Al-Shuhada Street - Wikipedia

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    Following the Israeli occupation of Hebron in 1967, a number of settlements were established in and around the city. The first settlement, being Kiryat Arba, was started in 1968 near the Cave of the Patriarchs, which is located a few hundred meters (yards) north of the Shuhada Street. Sarah Nachshon, the wife of its founder, started another ...

  9. Tomb of Jesse and Ruth - Wikipedia

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    They say that once they threw a cat through the window and it emerged from the hole in the Cave of the Patriarchs. The distance between them is half a mile." [6] Yihus HaAvos V'Neviim (Lineage of the Patriarch and the Prophets) a book from 1537 refers to the site as "a handsome building up on the mount, where Jesse, the King David's father is ...