Geographic co-ordinate : 31°32' North, 35°6' E

Hebron is placed 30km south of Jerusalem. Its elevation from either sea level is all about 1000m. Hebron is noted for its grapes, limestones, pottery workshops and glassblowing factories. These are as well at home of the nationally famed Al-Juneidi mill for dairy farm products. A old city of Hebron is characterized by its narrow & winding streets, a flat-roofed stone houses, & a old bazaars. These are a residence of Hebron University and [http://www.ppu.edu Palestine Polytechnic University].

History

Hebron is one of virtually all ancient cities in the Middle East, & one of a oldest day and night inhabited cities in the globe and was an ancient Canaanite royal city. Based on data from archeologic findings it was probably founded in the 35th century BC. 18th century BC. These are mentioned many days in the Bible. Particularly, a cave touching it, known as the Cave of the Patriarchs ( Arabic:المسجد الإبراهيمي, Hebrew: '''me'arat ha-machpela'), is the place Jews suppose is the place in which Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah are buried. This cave is considered sanctum by two Jews and Muslims, and is the 2nd holiest places within Judaism. Section of a structure is utilized per Muslims when a mosque, when Muslims too revere a places as the burial place of Abraham. Based on data from a Bible, fallowing a class action settlement of a Israelites in the area, Hebron became one of the principle centers of the Tribe of Judah, and a Judahite David was anointed King of Israel in Hebron & reigned in a city until the capture of Jerusalem, when a capital was moved to it city. It was too one of a sextet Biblical Cities of Refuge. Herod the Great built a todays structure above the Cave of the Patriarchs & Byzantine emperor Justinian I had turned it into a church in the sixth century CE which was later destroyed per Sassanids.

A Islamic rule of Hebron began inside 638. It lasted until a Crusaders occupied Hebron in 1099. It known as a city Abraham. So a title changed back to Hebron fallowing their kill by Saladin in 1187. Mamluks took control of Hebron until 1516, when it fell under a rule of the Ottoman Empire. Around 1831, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt took over Hebron until 1840.

Around December 1917 & when you took World War I, the British occupied Hebron. A city suffered a worst results of the riots that shook Palestine in 1929, with a select few 67 Jews massacred & several others injured by their Muslim neighbors. It remained as a section of the British mandate until 1948. Inside 1949, Jordan took over a control of Hebron & a rest of the West Bank; after a Six Day War, in June 1967, Hebron and a rest of the West Bank brutal under Israeli control (Look at Israeli-occupied territories). Since early 1997 the city has been divided into two sectors: H1 & H2. H1 a portion of the town has been controlled per Palestinian Authority, in accordance sustaining Hebron Protocol [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/c7d7b824004ff5c585256ae700543ebc?OpenDocument]. Fallowing a massacre of Muslims at prayer by Baruch Goldstein in 1994, an international unarmed observer force - a Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) was established in order to maintain a buffer between the Palestinian Arab people & Jews living in the ancient Jewish quarter.

Population at different times

Month	Muslims	Christians	Jews	Number	Source
1538*	749 h	7 h	Xx h	776 h	Cohen & Lewis
1837			423		Montefiore census
1866			497		Montefiore census
1922	16,074	73	430	16,577	Census
1931	17,275	112	135	17,522	Census
1944	24,400	150	0	24,550	Estimate
1967	38,203	106	0	38,309	Census
1997	130,000 N/A	Trey N/A	530 N/A	130,533 119,401	[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron.html Jewish Virtual Library] [http://www.pcbs.org/phc_97/tab_e.aspx Census]

(^*1538 numbers: h=family)

Jewish settlement after 1967

Below a Six-Day War of 1967, a class action of Jews disguised when tourer, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, took over a independent hotel within Hebron & refused to leave. It late moved to a nearby abandoned army camp & established the class action settlement of Kiryat Arba. Within 1979, Levinger's wife led Xxx Jewish women to require on top a Daboya Hospital (Beit Hadassah) inside central Hebron. Shortly this received Israeli government approval & farther Jewish enclaves in the city were established sustaining army assistance. This run of expansion of a Jewish presence is continuing & there are at present extra than Twenty Jewish settlements within & about the city. Jews sleep within these arewhen & their supporters claim that it is resettling areas in which Jews use at times lived since period immemorial, however a presence of Israeli settlers in these areas is condemned by local Palestinians besides as foreign governments & a United Nations as a violation of international law.

Within 1997, an association comprised of descendants of a few pre-1929 Jewish residents of Hebron published a statement dissociating themselves from either the present settlers around Hebron, calling the children dishonorable & an obstacle to peace. [http://www.angelfire.com/il/FourMothers/Yona.html].

Cultural, historical and sporting landmarks

Adjacent to a municipality building, Hebron archaeologic museum has the collection of artefact from either the Cannanite to the Islamic periods. A Oak Of Abraham (Ibrahim), likewise known as Oak of Mambre is an ancient oak which marks a place in which based on data from tradition Abraham pitched his collapsible shelter. These are forecasted that this oak is about 5000 years old. A Russian Orthodox Church owns a places & a nearby monastery.

Sport clubs
Hebron Youth Club(Shabab El-Khalil). Hebron Ahli Club(Al-Ahli). Muslim Young Men Club. Tarek Ben Ziyyad Club.

Nongovernmental organizations
The Palestinian Child Arts Center. The Palestinian Center for Childhood and Development. Patient's Friends Society. Agricultural Development Society. Hebron Young Women Center.