Kiryat Arba
Kiryat Arba (City of Four, Hebrew קריית ארבע ) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It is located on the outskirts of Hebron, about 40 kilometers south of Jerusalem. The settlement was founded in 1970 by Jewish settlers immediately east of Hebron on an abandoned military base. The first 120 of today about 7,000 residents moved in 1971 into the first houses a. Another approximately 3,000 Israelis live in several smaller settlements in the area; eg Bet Chaggai in the south or Giw'at Charsina in the east of Hebron. The Mayor of Kiryat Arba is Tzvi Katz Over.
Since Kiryat Arba can be seen as a suburb of Hebron, are populated statistically the Jewish settlers who live in the tiny Jewish enclave in Hebron, Kiryat Arba also counted. They are regarded as the hard core of the radical settler movement, who claim the West Bank occupied the majority of Palestinians, citing the biblical Land of Israel.
Kiryat Arba pulls, because of the widespread unemployment in Hebron, many Palestinian migrant workers to.
History
The Torah contains the term Kiryat Arba as old name of Hebron. There Kiryat Arba is described as a city of the tribe of Judah, who worked in the Abraham and David. Today's Jewish settlers feel obliged to this tradition and derive the religious significance of Hebron and Kiryat Arba settlement of the reasoning from.
After centuries Arabs and Jews lived together in Hebron, 67 Jewish inhabitants of the city were murdered in the organized massacre of Hebron on August 23, 1929, the surviving Jews fled from Hebron. Rabbi Moshe Levinger and Eliezer The Waldmann wanted to renew the Jewish presence in Hebron after the Six -Day War. For Passover 1968 Levinger moved with 87 followers and relatives in the Park Hotel in Hebron. Two days later, he announced that the group would like to stay in Hebron, to force a Jewish presence in Hebron. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wanted to remove the settlers, because the Israeli government had provided at this time no annexation of parts of the West Bank and struck a nearby military base as a place of settlement before. After negotiations between Levinger and out of the Labor Party government Avoda Kiryat Arba, the settlement was founded in 1970 in the east of Hebron on the site of a former military base.
Baruch Goldstein, who perpetrated the massacre at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on 25 February 1994, lived in Kiryat Arba where his grave is.
In September 2011, a cultural center was inaugurated in Kiryat Arba, which protests by Israeli artists and intellectuals provoked who do not want to go to a place in which collide so many things with my view of life on the stage (actor Rami Baruch ).