PEF Survey of Western Palestine, Volume III, p.309. During the First JewishRoman War, Hebron was captured and plundered by Simon Bar Giora, a leader of the Zealots, without bloodshed. [209] The Jewish settlement is widely considered to be illegal by the international community, although the Israeli government disputes this. [20] With the exception of a brief Crusader control, successive Muslim dynasties ruled Hebron from the 6th century CE until the Ottoman Empire's dissolution following World War I, when the city became part of British Mandatory Palestine. This SWIFT code is for the BANK OF PALESTINE PLC. Most of the Muslim population managed to flee beforehand to the hills. [212][213][214][215], Palestinians are barred from using Al-Shuhada Street, a principal commercial thoroughfare. Taxpayers consisted here of male heads of households who owned even a very small shop or piece of land. Khader believes that Jews and Arabs must learn to coexist. Under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine passed by the UN in 1947, Hebron was envisaged to become part of an Arab state. [270] The large population increase under Jordanian rule resulted in about 1,800 new houses being built, most of them along the Hebron-Jerusalem highway, stretching northwards for over 3 miles (5km) at a depth of 600ft (200m) either way. Maps of World. Many settled in three separate villages in the Wd al-Khall, and their descendants later formed the majority of Hebron. Khader regularly meets with settlers and Israeli government officials and is a strong opponent of both the concept of Palestinian State and the Palestinian Authority itself. [157][158] During the 1920s, Abd al-ayy al-Khab was appointed Mufti of Hebron. [38] In the narrative of the later Hebrew conquest, Hebron was one of two centres under Canaanite control. [187] For some, the capture of Hebron by Israel had unleashed a messianic fervor. In 1170, Benjamin of Tudela visited the city, which he called by its Frankish name, St. Abram de Bron. [161] The Palestinian Arab decision to boycott the 1923 elections for a Legislative Council was made at the fifth Palestinian Congress, after it was reported by Murshid Shahin (an Arab pro-Zionist activist) that there was intense resistance in Hebron to the elections. "The authorities have blocked Palestinians from driving on 65 roads leading to the city centre, comprising 12km (7.5 miles) of roads, in the Hebron area and banned them completely from 1.5km (0. . Find zip code of your current location. The organization cites regular incidents of "almost daily physical violence and property damage by settlers in the city", curfews and restrictions of movement that are "among the harshest in the Occupied Territories", and violence by Israeli border policemen and the IDF against Palestinians who live in the city's H2 sector. Hainault . [29][30] Arabic Al-Khalil thus precisely translates the ancient Hebrew toponym ebron, understood as aber (friend). [297][298], Israeli organization B'Tselem states that there have been "grave violations" of Palestinian human rights in Hebron because of the "presence of the settlers within the city." If a Jew comes, however, and gives a special reward, the custodian of the cave opens unto him a gate of iron, which was constructed by our forefathers, and then he is able to descend below by means of steps, holding a lighted candle in his hand. Settlers' claims to this land are based on these precedents, but are dismissed by the rabbi's heir. [236], In late 2019, the Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett instructed the military administration to inform the Palestinian municipality of the government's intention to reconstruct infrastructure in the old Hebron fruit and vegetable market in order to establish a Jewish neighbourhood there, which would allow for doubling the city's settler population. [209][216] As a result, about half the Arab shops in H2 have gone out of business since 1994. Palestinian police would assume responsibilities in Area H1 and Israel would retain control in Area H2. Later, the biblical narrative has King David called by God to relocate to Hebron and reign from there for some seven years (2 Samuel 2:13). Manage Settings Al Mashareqa Altahta Postal Code - P705. At present time I do not know in all the realm of al-Islam any house of hospitality and charity more excellent than this one. [110] As a result of its commercial decline, tax revenues diminished significantly, and the Ottoman government, avoiding meddling in complex local politics, left Hebron relatively undisturbed, to become 'one of the most autonomous regions in late Ottoman Palestine.'. [87][88] Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 Maimonides visited Hebron and wrote, On Sunday, 9 Marheshvan (17 October), I left Jerusalem for Hebron to kiss the tombs of my ancestors in the Cave. [217], Post-1967 settlement was impelled by theological doctrines developed in the Mercaz HaRav Kook under both its founder Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and his son Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, according to which the Land of Israel is holy, the people, endowed with a divine spark, are holy, and that the messianic Age of Redemption has arrived, requiring that the Land and People be united in occupying the land and fulfilling the commandments. [57], After the destruction of the First Temple, most of the Jewish inhabitants of Hebron were exiled, and according to the conventional view,[58] some researchers found traces of Edomite presence after the 5th4th centuries BCE, as the area became Achaemenid province,[59] and, in the wake of Alexander the Great's conquest, Hebron was throughout the Hellenistic period under the influence of Idumea (as the new area inhabited by the Edomites was called during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods), as is attested by inscriptions for that period bearing names with the Edomite God Qs. [72], Catholic bishop Arculf, who visited the Holy Land during the Umayyad period, described the city as unfortified and poor. 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In the mid-eighteenth century, rabbi Abraham Gershon of Kitov wrote from Hebron that:"the gentiles here very much love the Jews. 00 isn't part of the country code, it's a commonly used international access prefix. [276], The main municipal and governmental buildings are located in the centre of the city. [229] With this precedent, in February of the following year, the Government legitimized residency in the city of Hebron proper, allowing 50 armed families under military guard to dwell in a fortified structure in the heart of the Old City of Palestinian Hebron. [81] It was designated capital of the southern district of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem[82] and given, in turn,[83] as the fief of Saint Abraham, to Geldemar Carpinel, the bishop Gerard of Avesnes,[84] Hugh of Rebecques, Walter Mohamet and Baldwin of Saint Abraham. Zip Code Map. [290] Two Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack on the road to Hebron[291][292][293] On March 27, 2001, a Palestinian sniper targeted and killed the Jewish baby Shalhevet Pass. Their limbs had nowise been disturbed, and beside them were placed lamps of gold and of silver. In his writings he also mentioned camel caravans transporting firewood from Hebron to Jerusalem, which implies there was a presence of Arab nomads in the region at that time. [153], The Jewish community was under French protection until 1914. Some Jewish traditions regarding Adam place him in Hebron after his expulsion from Eden. And they discovered "(the bodies) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob", "their shrouds having fallen to pieces, lying propped up against a wallThen the King, after providing new shrouds, caused the place to be closed once more". During the 1920s, Abd al-ayy al-Khab was appointed Mufti of Hebron, Abram. 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