Abraham purchased the cave after the death of his beloved Sarah. He insisted on paying, so that generations that followed could not contest Jewish ownership.
Before Yair Maimon thwarted a terror attack near his home, his mother reportedly felt an inexplicable urge to rush to the Cave of Patriarchs in Hebron to pray.
A PA committee condemned the move, saying that the renovation is an attack on the exclusive right of the Muslims to enter the site. Are there no disabled Muslims wishing to enter?
My Hebrew name, Sarah Leah, reflects exactly who I felt embarrassed to be when I was a 19-year-old teenager on the kibbutz, but it is exactly who I am proud to be today!
The PA refuses to join Israel's initiative to improve accessibility to the holy site shared by Jews and Muslims, alleging attempts at an 'invasion of Hebron.'
The PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Netanyahu's visit 'a provocative colonialist and racist visit" and "warned against the dangers and consequences.'
Muslim Zionist Sara Zoabi tells Jews in Hebron there can be no peace with those who refuse to recognize the right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel.
Israel scored a symbolic victory at UNESCO Friday when a report by the organization dismissed a PA request to register Hebron's Old City as a World Heritage Site.
Palestinian vandals ripped off a Mezuzah, a Jewish artifact, which was affixed to the main entrance at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Friday, while the holy site was open solely for Muslims in honor of the Muslim month of Ramadan.
Tens of thousands packed Hebron on Passover, visiting the burial place of the patriarchs and matriarchs and celebrating the return to the ancient Jewish homeland.
A Christian pro-Israel advocacy organization is taking action against UNESCO after it passed an anti-Israel resolution in which it listed Rachel’s Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs as Muslim sites.
Israel condemned a UNESCO resolution that declares holy Jewish sites as Muslim, saying it is a distortion of history which only adds fuel to the flames of violence in the region.
UNESCO has passed a biased resolution recognizing Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, both extremely important to Jews and Judaism, as Muslim sites.
A Palestinian man rescued five American yeshiva students from a deadly lynch mob in Hebron after they were misdirected by Waze visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs.
A Palestinian man rescued five American yeshiva students from a deadly lynch mob in Hebron after they were misdirected by Waze visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs.
A Palestinian man rescued five American yeshiva students from a deadly lynch mob in Hebron after they were misdirected by Waze visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs.
A Palestinian man rescued five American yeshiva students from a deadly lynch mob in Hebron after they were misdirected by Waze visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs.
"We see ourselves not as individuals, but on a mission connecting young people to their Jewish roots," says Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum, who educates the public about the significance of the Jewish city of Hebron.
The Palestinian governor of Hebron accused Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman of inciting violence by visiting a Jewish holy site during a campaign stop.
If we don’t believe in the promise, are we really any different than anyone else? Last week I guided a family from Miami through Hebron. I have to admit that I was impressed when a week before their arrival in Israel, they called me to arrange a visit for them to that holy city. They... Read more »
On his first visit to Hebron as president, Reuven Rivlin emphasized that the city is "the place in which our rights to this land were originally established."
Security forces on high alert thwart several terror attacks in the past few days. A wave of recent terror attacks have claimed the lives of six Israelis and wounded several others.
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