Hebron
In a JNS Book Club interview, American author Yardena Schwartz argued that the 1929 Hebron Massacre was “ground zero” for the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The assailant was killed, no Israeli forces were wounded in the incident.
The city of Hebron reportedly declared a strike in protest at the terrorists’ deaths.
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees “serves as an organizational arm of the PFLP terror group,” the military said.
The Torah portion deals with Abraham’s purchase some 3,700 years ago of Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs.
The group purchased eight buildings over 18 years with full-price cash, facilitating Arab emigration and Jewish return to the city.
Two Israeli civilians were attacked by thieves who were loading their vehicle onto a tow truck.
Authorities have stepped up action on hundreds of Palestinian boys whom criminals bring in illegally to risk everything for handouts on busy roads.
Some 165,700 shekels (over $50,000) in terrorist funds were also confiscated in the operation.
Fifty percent more worshippers than last year visited Judaism’s second-holiest site during the first days of the Feast of Booths.
The suspects were operated by Hamas’s offices in Turkey, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.
In 1980, Tayseer Abu Sneineh took part in a terrorist ambush in Hebron in which six civilians, including two Americans and a Canadian, were killed.
