4500 B.C
The Early Canaanite and Middle Ages
The Early Canaanite and Middle Ages. The city is being built at the top of Tel Hebron and is surrounded by a solid wall. The city goes through several stages of settlement and is surrounded by two walls from two different periods.
1780 B.C
Biblical period: The first Hebrew city
The ancestral city of Hebron has a unique and central place in the history of the people of Israel; In it the foundations were laid for his identity, and in it the foundation for his name and historical essence..
1735 B.C
The Patriarchal Period
1735 B.C – Abraham came to the land of Canaan and settled in Hebron.
1675 B.C – Abraham buys the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1250 B.C
Period of settlement and judges
Period of settlement and judges
Approximately 1250 BC – Joshua at the head of the tribes of Israel conquers Hebron …
1007 B.C
The period of the monarchy and the First Temple
The period of the monarchy and the First Temple
1007 B.C- David anointed king in Hebron …
445 B.C
Second Temple period
445 B.C.- Return to Zion. Jews returning to the Hebron area.
164 B.C- The Hasmonean Revolt – Yehuda HaMaccabi conquers Hebron …
132 B.C
The Byzantine Roman Period – The Mishnah and Talmudic Period
445 B.C.- Return to Zion. Jews returning to the Hebron area.
164 B.C- The Hasmonean Revolt – Yehuda HaMaccabi conquers Hebron …
638 B.C
The period of the Arab and Crusader occupation
638 – The Arab Conquest. Islam holds holy places in Jerusalem and Hebron. A mosque was built in the southern part of the building above the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Jews continue to pray in the synagogue in the northern part of the building. Jewish communities in the southern Hebron hills are falling apart…
1260 B.C
The period of the Muslim occupation – Mamluk
1260 The Mamluk conquest.
1267 – הMuslims forbid Jews from entering the cave. Jewish prayer continues near the seventh step …
1517 B.C.
Period of Turkish occupation
1517 – The Turkish occupation. Riots among the Jews of Hebron.
1520 – A group of Jews deported from Spain immigrates to Hebron under the leadership of Rabbi Malkiel Ashkenazi and buys the land of the “Jewish Quarter” …
1918 B.C.
British and Jordanian occupation
1925 – The community recovers. The rise of the Slobodka Yeshiva “Knesset Yisrael”…
1967 B.C.
The liberation of Hebron and the renewal of the settlement
1967 – Liberation of Hebron. The Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Major General Shlomo Goren, hoists the Israeli flag on the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 – Rabbi Levinger establishes the “Hebron Settlers” nucleus. Passover Seder at the Park Hotel. After 5 weeks, they move to the military government house, establish a community, a yeshiva and factories …
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