Kiryat Arba

Summary

Kiryat Arba, the Jewish town established on the outskirts of Hebron after Moshe Levinger’s 1968 hotel presence, in Lustick one of the largest Jewish settlements on the West Bank and a centre of Gush Emunim and Kach activity (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2278-3624).

After more than a year and a half of agitation and a bloody Arab attack on the Hebron settlers, the Labor government agreed to allow Levinger’s group to establish a town on the outskirts of Hebron; that town, Kiryat Arba, is now one of the largest Jewish settlements on the West Bank (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2300-2400).
Chapter 3 note 1 records that much of the planning and financing of the Hebron-Kiryat Arba operation was actually provided by the Movement for the Whole Land of Israel (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3 notes, lines 3350-3624).
Eleazar Waldman, head of the Kiryat Arba Yeshiva, is a leading Gush ideologue; soldiers and yeshiva students from Kiryat Arba took part in the March 1983 Temple Mount digging operation, and a rabbi directing a religious school in Kiryat Arba was among the Jewish Underground members arrested in 1984 (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 3300-3500).
In 1985 Kahane had enough support in Kiryat Arba to give Kach two seats on the local council and a role in its governing coalition; Baruch Goldstein, whose 1994 Hebron mosque massacre Lustick’s Preface treats, was of Kiryat Arba (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 3200-3400; Preface, lines 110-169).

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