List of people from Hebron
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The following list of people were born in Hebron
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Hebron
Hebron , is located in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 165,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter...
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- Malkiel AshkenaziMalkiel AshkenaziMalkiel Ashkenazi was a Sephardic rabbi and leader of the Jewish community in Hebron in 1540.In 1517, when the Ottoman Turks conquered Palestine, Sephardic Jews living in Ottoman Salonika were allowed to move to the Holy Land. Many of these Jews had been expelled from Spain in 1492...
- leader of Sephardic Jewish Community of Hebron, 16th century - Nafez AssailyNafez AssailyNafez Assaily , born in 1956 in the West Bank, in the Old City of Jerusalem grew up in Hebron, and is a noted Palestinian peace activist.- Life and activism :...
- pro-Palestinian activist - Abraham AzulaiAbraham AzulaiAbraham ben Mordecai Azulai was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fes, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Palestine and settled in Hebron....
- (c.1570-1643), rabbi, Kabbalistic author of the Kirjath Arba ZoharZoharThe Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on Mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology...
commentary, - Haim Isaac Carigal 18th.century Hebronite and Rabbi.
- Hayyim ben Jacob AbulafiaHayyim ben Jacob AbulafiaHayyim ben Jacob Abulafia , was a rabbinical authority. He was the grandfather of Hayyim ben David Abulafia and grandson of Isaac Nissim aben Gamil. Abulafia was a rabbi in Smyrna, where he instituted many wholesome regulations...
17th. century renewer of Jewish setlement in Tiberias - Mazen DanaMazen DanaMazen Dana was a Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman and was shot and killed by United States soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on August 17, 2003...
- PalestinianPalestinian peopleThe Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
journalistJournalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
killed by United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
soldiers in BaghdadBaghdadBaghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
, - Hasan HouraniHasan HouraniHasan Hourani was a Palestinian artist, born in Hebron. He attended the College of Fine Art in Baghdad, Iraq from 1993-97. In 2001 he arrived in New York and presented his one-man show "One Day, One Night" in the UN building. He then studied at the Art Student's League of New York and continued...
- Palestinian artist, - Muhammad Ali Ja'abariMuhammad Ali Ja'abariSheikh Muhammad Ali Ja'abari was the long-serving mayor of the Palestinian city of Hebron, appointed by Jordan, from 1948 to 1976. Ja'abari was head of the Jericho Conference in Jericho which supported the unification of the West Bank and Jordan...
- Long-serving mayor of Hebron. - Sulaiman Ja'abariSulaiman Ja'abariSulaiman Ja'abari was a Sunni Muslim religious leader of the Palestinian people and the fifth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. When he became Grand Mufti in 1993, he was the first person to hold the position in nearly 40 years....
- Former Grand Mufti of JerusalemGrand Mufti of JerusalemThe Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Islamic holy places, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque.-Ottoman era:... - Abraham Konki - 17th-century Hebronite rabbi
- Baruch MarzelBaruch MarzelBaruch Meir Marzel is an Israeli politician. Marzel, an American-born Orthodox Jew, lives in the Jewish community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children. He is the leader of the Religious Zionism-orientated Jewish National Front party...
- Israeli religious and nationalist activist and KachKach and Kahane ChaiKach was a far-right political party in Israel. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology , the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures...
member. - Eliyahu de Vidas - Medieval KabbalistKabbalahKabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...
, author of Reshit Ḥokmah. - David WilderDavid Wilder (Hebron Spokesman)David Wilder is a leader of Israeli settlers and the spokesman for The Committee of The Jewish Community of Hebron.-History:David Wilder was born in New Jersey in the USA in 1954, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BA in History and teacher certification in 1976. He went to...
- Hebron Jewish community spokesman