Nachal Haredi Rabbi Leads Hebron Massacre Memorial

The annual memorial for the 67 Jewish victims of the 1929 Hebron
massacre was held at the ancient cemetery in Hebron on Monday. Students and staff of the
Hebron Yeshiva, which relocated to Jerusalem after the riots, recited kaddish at
the graves of those murdered.

 

Rabbi Yitzhak Bar Haim, an alumni of the Hebron yeshiva, led the prayers
along with family members and yeshiva students. He commented that among the 24 students
killed in the massacre were several American and Canadian immigrants.

 

Rabbi Bar Haim is a co-founder of Nahal Haredi which helps support
ultra-Orthodox Israelis in the Israel Defense Forces.

 

On August 24, 1929  / 18th of Av 5689, mobs attacked the Jewish
community and committed atrocities and murders, ransacking homes, businesses and
synagogues. Unarmed men, women and children, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, young and
old were attacked and killed. The British then rounded up the Jewish survivors and
deported them.

 

The prominent Slabodka yeshiva relocated from Lithuania to Hebron in the
1920s. The influx of new residents and pumped energy and economy into the sleepy
town of Hebron and raised the standard of living for all. After the massacre
and deportation, Slabodka relocated to Jerusalem where it became known as the Hebron
Yeshiva. Today it is still considered one of the largest and most prestigious
Jewish educational centers in the country.

 

 

 

* Martyrs of the 1929
Riots in Hebron

* Interview with
Hebron Massacre Survivor Shlomo Slonim

 

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