A UNESCO resolution sparked outraged because it described the site as “Palestinian”. This however is not an acknowledgment of property but rather of location. The place is holy to all the three ...

Repeated attacks on Jewish visitors to the Cave of Machpelah, near Hebron, perpetrated by Arab youths, led to a formal protest lodged with the Vaad Leumi, National Council of Palestine Jews, by one of ...

An entire chapter in the Bible is dedicated to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, showing the site’s importance in scripture. Today we will visit this holy site, which unfortunately is not on many ...

The ancestral city of Hebron is taking on a holy atmosphere these days and is becoming the focus of the Jewish people's Selichot prayers. Head of the Hebron local council, Eyal Gelman, invites the ...

On July 12, I joined hundreds of people from around the world at the Machpelah Cave in Hebron, the sacred resting place of our patriarchs and matriarchs. We came to pray and to strengthen one another, ...

It's not an exaggeration to say that if you want to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict, go to Hebron. But, more specifically, if you want to understand how history and conflicting narratives ...

And they buried him [Abraham], Isaac and Ishmael his sons, in the Cave of Machpelah … (Genesis 25:9). I wonder: how many of you have been to Hebron? Hebron means “friendship” or “unity.” How ironic.

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