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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rivlin-Hebron-no-obstacle-to-peace-494597
Rivlin: Hebron No Obstacle to Peace
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - The biblical city of Hebron had a continuous Jewish presence until 1929 when the Arab massacre of 67 Hebron Jews destroyed the community. Jews were not allowed to settle in the city when it was under Jordanian control from 1948 until 1967. After the Six-Day War, the Kiryat Arba community was founded in 1968, with residents moving in in 1971. Jews resettled Hebron in 1979. President Reuven Rivlin fought in the Six-Day War and was among those soldiers who entered Hebron after the Jordanians fled. "I remember the moments in which we stood at the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. As a child, I knew the Tomb only as far as the seventh step [as far as Jews were permitted to enter], from the days before the war."