Word: hebron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will give this land, to you and to your seed, afterward to the end of time.'" Her blue eyes blazing, Miriam Levinger, incongruously clad in an army fatigue jacket, blue skirt and blue bedroom slippers, stood outside the former Hadassah clinic in the old Jewish quarter of Hebron. Behind her, in a stone building surrounded by barbed wire and patrolled by Israeli soldiers, Jewish women who joined Mrs. Levinger in her "occupation" of the building nearly a year ago hung up laundry under the basement arches...
...squatters in Hebron are followers of Miriam's husband, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a leader of the Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement. Levinger, who lives in Qiryat Arba, spearheads the extremist drive to populate the West Bank with Jewish settlers. He and his followers believe it is the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in the land of biblical Israel...
Levinger was the founder of Qiryat Arba. Shortly after the 1967 war, he led a group of his followers, posing as Swiss tourists, to Hebron, where they squatted in the Park Hotel until the Labor government of Premier Levi Eshkol gave them permission to settle in a nearby military encampment. Once their presence was established, the squatters pushed for permanent quarters. In due course, Qiryat Arba, a fortress-like project of high-rise apartments, shops, synagogues and schools, was built by the government at a cost of $50 million...
Bowing to renewed pressure from the settlers, Israel's Cabinet last month approved a resolution allowing for Jewish settlement in Hebron and in other Arab towns, but the Cabinet has been split on how it should be carried out. Impatient with the delay, Levinger's people are now threatening to occupy vacant houses in Hebron. Premier Menachem Begin has said the squatters are violating the law, but he has not ordered the army to evict them. On the contrary, army reservists stand guard outside the occupied Hadassah clinic round the clock to protect the squatters. Some...
...fact, settlers from Qiryat Arba regularly intimidate Arab residents of Hebron, secure in the knowledge that the government will not crack down on them. Scarcely a week passes without some incident of vandalism or vigilantism. Grape vines of Arab villagers are cut. The tires of Arab-owned vehicles are slashed and windows smashed. Gun-wielding Israelis invade the houses of Hebron residents, threatening and terrorizing them. At the Haram al-Khalil Mosque, built on the site where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are believed to have been buried, Jews disrupt the prayers of devout Muslims...