Some 500 Jewish Israelis live in Hebron in four neighborhoods, amidst more than 100,000 Palestinians. The Tomb of the Patriarchs is holy to both Jews and Muslims. Share this: ...

Al-Mufaqara is one of eight villages in Masafer Yatta that remain under constant threat of demolition and forced displacement ...

Security forces in Judea and Samaria arrested a 50-year-old Palestinian Arab woman, who admitted that she was planning to carry out a stabbing attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs.

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Israeli authorities briefly closed off the Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the West Bank ...

“Cities and towns that are usually packed with children in costumes were uncharacteristically quiet,” JTA reported after Baruch Goldstein’s murder of 29 Palestinian worshippers in Hebron.

Thus when Jacob was on his death-bed, he commanded his sons to bury him in his family’s ancestral burial-plot in the Machpelah Cave in Hebron: “[Jacob] commanded [his sons], saying to them ...

They also shouted insults at him. This occurred during the "Life of Sarah" Shabbat in Hebron, the Torah portion of this week in which Abraham buys the Cave of the Patriarchs. Due to the central ...