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  Kiryat Arba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba is an Israeli settlement in Southern Judea (Southern West Bank) adjoining the city of Hebron.
Jewish settlers founded Kiryat Arba immediately to the east of Hebron.
The population in 2005 was approximately 6,500, with an additional 2,700 Israelis living in a number of smaller surrounding settlements.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qiryat_Arba   (231 words)

  
 Kiryat Arba Police Unresponsive to Complaints , The Palestinian Human Right Monitoring Group
On 9 December 2001, we wrote directly to Zamir Ali, the Chief of the Kiryat Arba police, pointing out the lack of apparent police response, and urging him to comply with his duty under both Israeli and International law to protect the rights, lives, safety and property of Palestinian civilians living under his jurisdiction.
Another case in which we have seen no action by the Kiryat Arba police is that of the assault on Ahmed al-Khatib, a 12-year-old boy who was beaten, causing injuries to his head that required hospitalization.
He is currently petitioning the Israeli High Court to order the Kiryat Arba police to reply to his inquiries concerning the status of the case.
www.phrmg.org /hotline/update8-2001.htm   (614 words)

  
 Christian Friends of Israeli Communities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kiryat Arba rises 1,000 meters above sea level and the air is clean and fresh - dry and pleasant in the summer, cold and clear during the winter.
The residents of Kiryat Arba represent all types of Israelis — new immigrants alongside veteran “sabras”; religious and non-religious; old and young — all have found a warm home and a welcoming atmosphere in Kiryat Arba.
Kiryat Arba has a fleet of five ambulances, and runs the only Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) between Gush Etzion in the North and Beersheba to the south.
www.cfoic.com /index.asp?mainpage=projfocus&id=124   (555 words)

  
 All4Israel
The Kiryat Arba emergency response squad arrived quickly at the scene and conducted an exchange of gunfire with the terrorists.
Kiryat Arba, one of the largest Jewish communities in the Judea region south of Jerusalem, adjacent to the ancient divided Arab-Jewish city of Hebron, has been the frequent target of Palestinian terror attacks in recent months, many of which have taken place on Sabbath eve.
What they are most remembered for in Kiryat Arba is the counseling and guidance they provided to married couples throughout the years.
www.all4israel.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=Page&pageID=39   (1513 words)

  
 Murder outside Kiryat Arba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The victim of the Arab terror attack lived in Kiryat Arba, and was married with 2 children.
He was driving home from the electrical plant across from Kiryat Arba, where he worked as a guard.
Tzvi Katzover, Mayor of Kiryat Arba, issued the following reaction: The ink on the agreement isn't yet dry, and yet more Jewish blood has been spilled.
www.gamla.org.il /english/article/1998/oct/arba.htm   (130 words)

  
 Middle East Stage: Abeja Dispatch - February 2, 2000
The second reason Kiryat Arba has been in the news is that the Israeli government recently tore down a memorial around the grave of a man named Baruch Goldstein.
Kiryat Arba has been around since 1968, when a group of religious Jews, led by a man named Rabbi Levinger, returned to Hebron and refused to leave.
The other paper was an announcement to the people of Kiryat Arba, warning them of a suspected Arab siege on their settlement, and recommending that they stock up on food and be careful.
www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/mideast/020200/020200abehakiriat.html   (1424 words)

  
 On the Ruins of the Peace Plans - Palestine Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This strip overlooks Kiryat Arba and is located at a distance of between several dozen and several hundred meters outside the fence that now surrounds the large and veteran Jewish neighborhood adjacent to Hebron.
Between the land on which the new fence is going up and the old fence around Kiryat Arba, there is an area of about 600 dunams, nearly all of it privately owned land on most of which there are vineyards and plantations.
The history of the Israeli settlement project in the territories of Judea and Samaria, which has been going on without pause for more than 36 years, is rich in legal-security maneuvers, all of which have been aimed at and have led to a single result: the Israeli takeover of more and more land.
www.palestinemonitor.org /settlements/Ruins_of_Peace_Plans.htm   (627 words)

  
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In the months before moving over to Kiryat Arba, the settlers “adopted” potential families who were planning to come and live in Kiryat Arba.
By 1971 Kiryat Arba was already a fact and the first people would soon be moving in.
The first buildings in Kiryat Arba were ready just a few days before Rosh Hashanah and some of the settlers from the Memshal moved in immediately.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/7854/hebronsettler17.html   (1161 words)

  
 Hebron Massacre
Worshippers from Kiryat Arba had just finished the 10 minute walk up a steep hill leading from Hebron, when a terrorist opened fire, not hitting anyone.
According to one report, he was dressed as a Jew and had planned on trying to enter Kiryat Arba with them.
An emergency team of civilians arrived from Kiryat Arba and attempted to reach the soldiers.
www.internationalwallofprayer.org /E-Yisrael-002-Hebron-Massacre.html   (493 words)

  
 Kiryat Arba Minors Suspected of Belonging to Illegal Jewish Underground in Israel
Kiryat Arba Minors Suspected of Belonging to Illegal Jewish Underground in Israel
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s court extended the arrest of two 15 year-olds from Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, suspected of setting fire to 8 cars and several fields belonging to Arabs from Hebron about five weeks ago.
Two more Kiryat Arba minors were arrested yesterday on the same suspicions.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=119   (116 words)

  
 JewishPress.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Earlier, as I was arriving, I passed by Tzvi Katzover, rosh hamoetza (mayor) of Kiryat Arba and Yossi Dayan, the s`gan rosh hamoetza (deputy mayor).
He was shot just outside the gates of Kiryat Arba while protesting the murder of someone else earlier in the week.
Calev prayed in Kiryat Arba, that is Hebron (Gen. 23:2).
www.thejewishpress.com /news_article_print.asp?article=1805   (1984 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Kiryat Arba
Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba is an Israeli settlement adjoining the city of Hebron.
Image File history File links Street at Kiryat Arba File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
An Israeli settlement refers to housing development for Israeli Jews in areas within the control of Israel (as a result of the 1967 Six Day War), but contested by Palestinians residing in those areas.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kiryat-Arba   (907 words)

  
 The JPost - Casualties of War
The three civilian members of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Bueinish, 46, married and the father of seven children; Alex Tsvitman, 26, married with one daughter; and Alex Dukhan, 33, married and the father of 4 children.
A statement released by the IDF Spokesman declared that the three civilian members of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team will be buried in a military ceremony in a civilian cemetery.
They were taken to Kiryat Arba and from there were transferred by ambulances and IAF helicopters to Jerusalem's Hadassah-University Hospitals in Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus, and Shaare Zedek Hospital.
info.jpost.com /C002/Supplements/CasualtiesOfWar/2002_11_15.html   (760 words)

  
 RPGHost Community Forums - Rock-throwing youth clash with Israeli Security Forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Some Kiryat Arba residents were angered by the exploitation of the settlers' SMS-based emergency notification system to attempt to draw settlers from the surrounding area to protest the dismantling of the Hazon David outpost.
Kiryat Arba Mayor Zvi Katzover said early on Wednesday that "IDF forces and police have destroyed a synagogue in Kiryat Arba," Katzover declared.
Hebron and Kiryat Arba settlers told Army Radio that Hazon David would be the last outpost to be evacuated, otherwise Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would be the next to be evacuated.
forums.rpghost.com /showthread.php?t=16918   (802 words)

  
 Arutz 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Amongst those killed were ‘the twelve heroes’, three Kiryat Arba civilians, belonging to the town’s emergency security squad, and nine police, soldiers and officers, including the Hebron commander, Colonel Dror Weinberg.
The words spoken by Rabbi Dov Lior, Kiryat Arba Mayor Tzvi Katzover, Brigadier General Amos Ben Avraham, commander of forces in Judea, and Yossi Levy, a member of the Kiryat Arba security squad commended the IDF for recognizing the contribution of the emergency security squad, while also recognizing the selfless dedication of the men involved.
Alex was one of those three brave Kiryat Arba residents who lost their lives, killed when a terrorist’s hand grenade exploded next to him, killing him and the two others instantaneously.
www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=article&id=2247   (937 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Kach youths arrested for staging prime minister's execution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Kiryat Arba ceremony has been held annually since 1994, when Goldstein opened fire in Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs and murdered 29 Muslim worshippers inside.
Yesterday, the IDF declared Goldstein's gravesite near Kiryat Arba a "closed military area" and large contingents of police were stationed nearby to prevent disturbances.
Kiryat Arba Municipal Council head Zvi Katzover distanced himself from the Kach ceremony and said, "This is just a media gimmick.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/2096.htm   (663 words)

  
 Sharon threatens to expand Hebron enclave
The attack happened shortly after the weekly pilgrimage of the residents of Kiryat Arba to the Tomb of the Patriarchs where Abraham is reputedly buried.
The route from Kiryat Arba, which has a population of 6,000, to the 400-strong Jewish enclave by the Tomb of the Patriarchs is only about 500 metres but much of it is through Palestinian areas.
After the residents of Kiryat Arba buried three of their security guards killed on Friday, they placed three shipping containers close to the scene of the shooting to create an outpost.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/11-17-2002-30501.asp   (506 words)

  
 Baruch Goldstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the end of his active duty, Goldstein worked as a physician and lived in the Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron, where he served as head medical officer.
Goldstein is best known for having killed 29 Muslims during Friday prayers on Purim day, February 25th, 1994, in the Cave of the Patriarchs—the burial site of Biblical figures Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah—which is considered holy to both Muslims and Jews.
Members of the outlawed Kach organization glorify his mass murder (claiming that he pre-empted the mass murder of Jews by Arabs).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baruch_Goldstein   (854 words)

  
 A Funeral of Heroes in Hevron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Earlier, as I was arriving, I passed by Tzvi Katzover, the mayor of Kiryat Arba and Yossi Dayan, the deputy mayor.
The next speaker was Rabbi Ben-Amram from Yeshivat Nir (the Kiryat Arba ‘hesder’ rabbinical school), who spoke of the three men´s courage and selfless devotion to Hevron-Kiryat Arba and it´s security.
The three civilian members of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Yitzhak Buanish, 46; Alexander Zwitman, 26; and Alexander Dohan, 33.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/791364/posts   (3127 words)

  
 The Background and Consequences of the Massacre in Hebron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'The Kiryat Arba settlers, among whom many declared themselves in favor of the mass murder in radio and TV interviews, lauding Goldstein as a "martyr" and "holy man," demanded from General Yatom that the funeral cortege parade through the city of Hebron, then under a curfew.
In further negotiations involving inter alia Barak, Yatom, Rabin, the Kach leaders and Kiryat Arba settlers, Weizman took a consistent position that "the army should pay all the respects to the desires and sensibilities of the settlers and Goldstein's family." Ultimately a compromise satisfactory to all sides was reached.
After Goldstein's coffin was brought to Kiryat Arba under heavy military guard, a second run of eulogies was delivered in the hall of the Hesder Yeshiva Nir, i.e., in a military institution.
www.mepc.org /public_asp/journal_shahak/shahak48.asp   (6837 words)

  
 Terrorist Attack at entrance to Kiryat Arba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The driver of the van was shot in the head and is reported to be in extremely critical condition.
The terrorists continued shooting, attacking an army jeep and also injured an Arab, several hundred meters north of the entrance to Kiryat Arba.
Hebron neighborhoods were shot at for hours in the middle of the night, as was the Harsina neighborhood of Kiryat Arba.
www.hebron.org.il /pics/katerror.htm   (148 words)

  
 MASADA (David Wilder) August, 1998
But gunfire on the main road, leading back and forth between Kiryat Arba and Hebron is definitely worrisome for a few reasons, aside from the most obvious one, that of being shot at.
Yesterday, the day after the attack, that same road, which is used by all cars traveling between Hebron and Kiryat Arba, was full of soldiers, - at the top of the hill, by each curve, and at the bottom of the hill in Hebron.
The ceremony is usually held in the Kiryat Arba school he attended.
www.freeman.org /m_online/aug98/wilder.htm   (932 words)

  
 Jewish Indianapolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Earlier as I was arriving, I passed by Tzvi Katzover Rosh HaMoetza (Mayor of Kiryat Arba).
The next speaker Rav Ben-Amram from Yeshivat Nir (the Kiryat Arba Hesder-military Rabbinical school), spoke of the three's courage and selfless devotion to Hevron-Kiryat Arba and it's security.
Calev prayed in Kiryat Arba, that is Hevron (Gen. 23:2).
www.jewishindy.com /article.php?sid=1866   (2487 words)

  
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The residents of Kiryat Arba were asked to go to the Court to give Ilan moral support and I went several times.
Water in Kiryat Arba comes from the Herodian well and there is water in the residents’ taps for 24 a day.
It was at this period, that I was in the swimming pool in Kiryat Arba when a television crew came to film.
www.geocities.com /ChaimSimons/writings08.html   (4691 words)

  
 Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
For those unfamiliar with Kiryat Arba, it is a settlement-suburb of Hebron, which holds 15,000 radical nationalist settlers.
Kiryat Arba is built squarely upon the 8 km of land that belong to Atta and his extended family.
Since Kiryat Arba was founded in 1969, more than half of the family land has become home to the most notoriously violent settlers.
www.icahd.org /eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=142   (1618 words)

  
 MIFTAH's Dialogue - Israeli crimes in Hebron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HEBRON-Israeli settlers from the two large settlements of Harsina and Kiryat Arba, situated along Hebron's eastern edge, have escalated their continuing campaign of annexing fertile Palestinian farmland lying between the two settlements.
Harsina lies about a mile to the north of Kiryat Arba, where the pace of the latest campaign of land annexation is also escalating.
One of the larger Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Kiryat Arba, is home to 6,500 residents.
www.miftah.org /dialogue/printthread.cfm?Topic=3757&Forum=8   (759 words)

  
 Arutz 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A group calling itself "No'ar Kiryat Arba" (Kiryat Arba Youth) decries the murder of 25 Israelis - citizens and soldiers - in the vicinity over the past few months - and says it will act to make the area Jewish, and safe.
The group says that the government's lack of response to the situation is unacceptable, and promises to continue attempts to fortify the area by building a Jewish presence between Kiryat Arba and Hevron.
It will be recalled that after 12 soldiers and civilian fighters were killed in an ambush attack last November along the road leading from Kiryat Arba to Hevron, Prime Minister Sharon visited the site and said that there must be Jewish territorial contiguity between Hevron and Kiryat Arba.
www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=news&id=42868   (393 words)

  
 The Gedudei Giborim Neighborhood -- Between Kiryat Arba & Hebron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The new neighborhood, soon to be developed between Kiryat Arba and Hebron, has been named Gedudei Giborim, which means "The Heros' Battalions." The letters of these two words, in Hebrew, are an acronym, commemorating the names of the twelve men killed on Friday night.
One family from Kiryat Arba moved into a container with their two small children, and today welcomed visitors from around the country.
a bus of young women from Gush Katif arrived, first visiting and consoling families of the murdered Kiryat Arba emergency squad, and distributing toys to their children and children of those wounded.
www.internationalwallofprayer.org /E-Yisrael-003-The-Gedudei-Giborim-Neighborhood-Hebron.html   (183 words)

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