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About 90min by bus #24, or 60min by service taxi (around 8NIS), both from opposite the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem.

Seventeen kilometres south of Bethlehem, Hebron ( al-Khalil in Arabic, Hevron in Hebrew) is holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians alike as the burial place of the biblical patriarch Abraham. It is also the most contentious West Bank town, with a militant Palestinian community, and a group of the most extreme Jewish settlers right in the town centre under Israeli military protection. The twentieth century saw an escalating series of sectarian murders by both Jews and Palestinians here, crowned by two horrific massacres - in 1929, when the town's ancient Jewish community was attacked by a Muslim mob which killed 67 and expelled the rest; and in 1994, when a Jewish settler mowed down 24 Muslim worshippers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The barbed wire and armed troops uneasily keeping the two sides apart are proof enough of the tension here, and you should always check the latest situation before making a visit.