Hebron massacre

Last remaining survivor of 1929 Hebron massacre passes away at 100

Yitzhak Ben Hebron was about four years old at the outbreak of the riots that led to the massacre, and managed to escape the violence through the window of the Avraham Avinu Synagogue.

An officer of the Palestinian Police stands guard outside the Hebron Yeshiva (school for Talmudic study) in the aftermath of the Hebron massacre in Mandatory Palestine, 1929.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN emblazoned on Austrian stamp, 2018.

This week in Jewish history: 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' published

A GALA celebration of the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress takes place at the original venue, the Stadtcasino Basel, Switzerland, in 2022.

The Jewish community should reevaluate its priorities and reconnect with its mission - opinion

 GRAND MUFTI of Jerusalem and Supreme Islamic Council chairman Amin Al-Husseini teaches a Bosnian SS volunteer to use a rifle in 1943.

'Ghosts of a Holy War': How the Israel-Hamas War is rooted in the 1929 Hebron massacre - review


Police thwart stabbing attack in Hebron

The 22-year-old woman who was arrested was carrying a knife and a Quran. She was disarmed without shots being fired.

knife and a Koran

The Goldstein massacre’s shadow on Hebron

Twenty-five years later, it is the sounds and sights of that Purim holiday, not the somber silent memory of a massacre, that fills the streets around the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

CELEBRATING PURIM outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron

This Week in Israeli History: 1929 Arab Riots

The Jerusalem Post

Palestinians throw shoes at Trump poster to mark Hebron street closure

Organizers said they were protesting against Trump because he did not see Palestinians as equals.

An Israeli border police officer fires a tear gas canister during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron November 5, 2015.

Israel’s trees: Cause for celebration and optimism

So as we enjoy our delicious fruits this Tu Bishvat, let us not only give thanks for the delicious vegetation of the Land of Israel.

A GIRL plants a seedling outside the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba ahead of Tu Bishvat

This Week in Israeli History: 1929 Arab Riots

The Jerusalem Post

A window into the West Bank

Shimon Dotan’s ‘The Settlers’ examines the origins of the settlement movement and the religious and ideological visions that inspire it.

A SCENE from Shimon Dotan’s latest documentary ‘The Settlers.’

Life in the West Bank’s capital of ‘martyrs’

The Hebron region has recently witnessed an uptick in Palestinian terrorist attacks. In the past 10 months 13 residents of Sa’ir have died while either attacking IDF soldiers or clashing with them.

A MOUND OF EARTH is piled up to serve as a roadblock outside Sa’ir village yesterday. (

This Week in History: Jewish settler massacres Palestinians in Hebron mosque

Baruch Goldstein, the Brooklyn-born Orthodox Jew who took up residence in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, slaughtered 29 Palestinians and wounded 125 more in the attack.

Baruch Goldstein

Les fantômes de 1929

Le calme est toujours précaire à Hébron. Ces derniers jours, les attentats s’enchaînent et réveillent le spectre du terrible pogrome

Au musée Beth Hadassah