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1929 Hebron Survivor Fires Shots, Vows Community Resilience

5/22/2026

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Yitzhak Ben-Hebron, a 1929 Hebron massacre survivor, fired warning shots at masked youths near Bethlehem in 1988, recalling his trauma.
He declared the Jewish community would not be forced out again.
He served in the Hebrew Settlements Police, joined the Haganah and Gadna, and died at age 100 in Israel.
His family kept a rescued Sephardic Megillat Esther as a link to the vanished Hebron Jewish community.

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Story summary

Yitzhak Ben-Hebron, a 1929 Hebron massacre survivor, fired warning shots at masked youths near Bethlehem in 1988, recalling his trauma.
He declared the Jewish community would not be forced out again.
He served in the Hebrew Settlements Police, joined the Haganah and Gadna, and died at age 100 in Israel.
His family kept a rescued Sephardic Megillat Esther as a link to the vanished Hebron Jewish community.