Kfar Etzion is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank, that has been through cycles
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Kfar Etzion water tank, 1943
Kfar Etzion (Kefir 'Etsyon) 1945, 1:250,000
The Kfar Etzion massacre refers to a massacre of Jews that took place after a two-day battle in which Jewish Kibbutz residents and Haganah militia defended Kfar Etzion from a combined force of the Ara
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…land acquired by a group of Orthodox Jews from Jerusalem, it was depopulated and destroyed during the 1929 Palestine riots. Re-established in 1943, the Kfar Etzion massacre saw it depopulated and razed to the ground by Arab forces in 1948. It was re-established again in 1967 after the Six-Day War. The majority of the…
Arab Legion Major Abdullah el Tell (far right) with Captain Hikmat Mihyar (far left) pose with two of the four Jewish survivors of the Fall of Gush Etzion. Around May 13, 1948.
Casualties of the Convoy of 35 being brought to burial in January 1948
Funeral procession leaving from Jewish Agency building, Jerusalem