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| | Hebron - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Hebron ( Arabic الخليل al-Ḫalīl ; Hebrew חברון, Standard Hebrew Ḥevron, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥeḇrôn : the name in each language is derived from that language's word for "Friend") is a town in the West Bank. |
 | | The land was originally purchased by Abraham so that he would have somwhere to bury his wife, Sarah. |
 | | On February 26, 1994, one of the settlers in Hebron, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-born physician, shot and killed 29 Muslims while they were praying in the Hebron mosque. |
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