- Hebron is the biggest city in the Palestinian West Bank with a population of 200,000 Palestinians and around 1,000 Israeli settlers.
- The city is home to the most important religious site for Jews and Muslims outside of Jerusalem: a 2,000 year-old building known as the Cave of the Patriarchs to Jews and Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslims.
- The history of the religious site and the tense situation around it today illuminate much about the persistence of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- I recently visited Hebron on a “dual narrative” tour. Half the tour was guided by an Israeli Jew and the other half was read more >>>
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