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According to the book Year Zero of
the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by
Hillel Cohen:
“Sefer Chevron was edited by Oded
Avisar, scion of an old Hebron
family. At a meeting they held in
Jerusalem in 1958, when Hebron
was under Jordanian rule, the
members of the Jewish community
that had fled Hebron decided to
write the book. The volume would
serve as a memorial book, similar to
those produced by survivors from
Jewish communities destroyed
in the Holocaust, Avisar said at
the gathering. Testimonies and
Ben- and money to produce the book was
documents were slowly gathered,

collected. Twelve years later, when
the project was completed and the
book published, Hebron was under
Gurion David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first
Israeli rule...”

Prime Minister, was asked to write
the introduction to the book:

THREE CITIES hold a great and
unique place in the ancient history of
and our people: Shechem, Hebron and Jeru-
salem. In the Book of Genesis we are
Hebron his nephew Lot and his daughter-in-law
told that Terach took his son Abram,

Sarai, Abram’s wife, and left Ur Kasdim
bound for Canaan. On route, they
reached Haran and dwelt there. Terach
died in Haran.
Then the Almighty said to Abram:
“Go forth from your land, from your
birthplace and from your father’s house
to the land that I shall show you... and
Abram went forth as he had been told
by G-d... and he took with him Sarai
his wife, Lot his nephew, all their

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