1929 Hebron massacre
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Sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews were massacred on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine. The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were r
From top-left, clockwise: Young boy crying from wounds; The Holy Ark of the Sephardi Synagogue of Abraham is ransacked; A survivor reflecting in the aftermath of the massacre; Kolstein family recover from their injuries. Bottom: Memorials to murdered rabbinical students in the old Jewish cemetery.
Elhanan Zelig Roch, a student of the Hebron Yeshiva, lost a hand in the attack
Jewish child victim of Arab riots
Raymond Cafferata about 1926
Kiryat Arba
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Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Founded in 1968, in 2024 it had a population of 7,698.
Israeli settlement in Hebron
Tomb of the Kach supporter and perpetrator of the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre against Palestinian worshipers, Baruch Goldstein, located at the Meir Kahane Park in Kiryat Arba