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Abraham's life becomes very eventful. He travels to Egypt and back and alights inCanaanite towns that may correspond topresent-day Nablus, Hebron and Jerusalem. He grows rich, distinguishing himself sometimes as a warrior king and sometimes as an arch-diplomat. At one point, three strangers appear at his tent. A model of Middle Eastern hospitality, he lays out a feast. They turn out to be divine messengers bearing word that God intends to destroy Sodom, where his nephew Lot lives. Abraham initiates an extraordinary haggling session, persuading the Lord to spare Sodom if 10 righteous people can be found...
...Abraham dies and is laid out next to Sarah, who preceded him, in a plot he has bought in a town later called Hebron. Both sons attend his funeral...
...structure built by King Herod 2,000 years ago, is the grim living metaphor for dueling Abrahamisms. Despite God's promise that this land would be his people's one day, Abraham in Genesis makes a point of paying Ephron the Hittite 400 silver shekels for a cave in Hebron to serve as a burial plot. He and Sarah were laid there, and later, Scripture adds, so were Isaac and his wife Rebecca, his grandson Jacob and his first wife Leah. Herod erected a grandiose monument at what hethought was the site. For most of the past few hundred years...
...human resources. And with the crackdown's having removed so many leaders of the Izzedine al-Qassam military wing, political leaders who were not previously involved in terror attacks have been forced to fill the gap. One is Abdel Khaleq Natshe, 48, who headed the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron. After Defensive Shield, Israeli officials and Palestinian sources say, Natshe began providing funding and coordination for Izzedine al-Qassam. They say Natshe was behind an April attack on the Israeli settle-ment of Adora, in which Hamas gunmen shot four Israelis. Natshe was finally arrested by Israeli soldiers two weeks...
...month wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, Hizballah, has limited its involvement to training Palestinians from other terrorist groups, like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and helping build their military capability. But Israeli intelligence sources tell TIME that during Israel's invasion of Hebron two weeks ago, officials arrested a Hizballah operative who was planning a potentially devastating strike within Israel. The officials say the operative, a Lebanese-born Canadian man known as Abu Ahmed, had been scouting locations for large-scale attacks similar to a failed bomb attempt at a gas depot...