Jews celebrate the week-long holiday of Sukkot at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Oct. 3, 2023. Photo by Eytan Schweber/TPS “Thousands of participants at Hallel prayer in the place where ...

The Tomb of the Patriarchs is the burial place of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. It is one of Israel’s most visited tourist sites.

My memory is vivid of my first visit to Hebron, at age 13 in 1967. The West Bank was newly under Israeli sovereignty. I was thrilled to be in the Cave of Machpelah, where Abraham had buried Sarah, ...

Furthermore, under Arab, Mamluk and then Ottoman rule, Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs was generally off-limits even for the persistent local Jewish community.

Hebron has been a hot spot of the recent violence in Israel and the West Bank. Jews and Muslims revere the city’s Tomb of the Patriarchs as the gravesite of their forefathers.

And Hebron boasts the final resting place of Abraham, whose covenant with the Almighty led to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. (PHOTOS: The potential World Heritage sites of Palestine.) ...

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