History

Fahd Kawasme rented the Park Hotel to Jewish settlers, became mayor, and was later assassinated by Jihadists.

A fascinating look at Hebron from the perspective of a European tourist in the 1800s.

Full story of the massacre from survivors taken from the trial, commission of inquiry and police records.

The prolific and influential Jewish scholar considered his visit to the Cave of Machpela a personal holiday.

A biased vote regarding Hebron led to both Israel and the United States quitting a UN body.

A tour of the city of the Founding Fathers and Mothers.

Memories of the women who initiated the return to the historic Jewish neighborhoods of Hebron in 1979.

“I found myself in a square room. Opposite me were three tombstones,” 12-year-old Michal Arbel wrote in 1968.

“One can scarcely tolerate the theory of some architectural writers, that this enclosure is of a period later than the Jewish,” said Henry Baker Tristram in 1865.

A graphic description of how the survivors were treated by the British and the struggle to recover looted property.

After the 1929 massacre, British authorities rounded up all the surviving Jews and bused them off to Jerusalem.

All visitors confined to quarantine in Hebron due to plague outbreak in Egypt.