1980 Hebron attack

Terrorist massacre of Jews in 1980 yes September 2023 1980 Hebron attack the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Israel south wb center Hebron105.JPG Beit Hadassah in Hebron, location of the terrorist attack Hebron The attack site 1980 5 2 y Ambush 3 Israeli, 2 American, 1 Canadian civilians 20 Israeli and American civilians Fatah 4 Palestinians Rifles and grenades On 2 May 1980, six Jews – three Israelis, two American Israelis, and one Canadian – were killed, and another 20 Jews were injuredPalestinian terrorist in killing of 6 Jews elected Hebron mayor https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-terrorist-in-killing-of-6-jews-elected-hebron-mayor/ 19 August 2018 Times of Israel 14 May 2017 at 7:30 pm on a Friday night as they returned home from Sabbath prayer services at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.https://archive.org/details/highpricetriumph0000byma registration 276 A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism Byman Daniel 2011-06-15 Oxford University Press 9780199830459 en Five of the six killed were yeshiva students aged 20–21. They were attacked with gunfire and grenades from the rooftops around a small alley. It was the most deadly attack on the Israeli occupied West Bank since the Six-Day War.Claiborne William PLO Terrorist Recalls His Training, Mission: Terrorist: Soviets Gave PLO Training Newsday 17 November 1980 1002861278 Context The attack, unprecedented in the post-1967 period, was understood to mark a transition from "hit-and-run" attacks to attacks aiming to achieve mass casualties by the use of military tactics and careful planning.Torgerson Dial Arab Attack on Hebron Signals Shift of Terrorist Tactics Los Angeles Times 6 May 1980 162803326 Attack The attack was carefully planned in military style. The assailants had studied the route and timing of the return of worshipers to the Jewish residence in the former Hadassah medical clinic (Beit Hadassah) on Friday evenings, and attacked from both street and rooftop level as soon as the Jews appeared in the narrow passageway. One of the assailants, Adnan Jabar was posted on the roof of a building opposite the Hadassah medical clinic holding a Kalashnikov with which he "opened fire" as soon as the Jewish pedestrians came into view. Israeli guards at the former clinic immediately returned fire. Perpetrators admitted to having received instructions directly from Khalil al-Wazir. Israel sent a protest note to the United Nations, arguing that "this criminal incident illustrates once again the true character of the PLO and its violent aims".Y. Z. Blum, Israeli Ambassador of Israel to the UN, Letter to the Secretary General dated 4 May 1980. UN codes A/35/207 and S/13923. Legal proceedings Investigation An extensive cache of explosives and weapons was discovered; it included the guns used in the attack. Arrests In September 1980, four members of Fatah were arrested and charged with carrying out the attack. One of the four had trained in the Soviet Union. Two were arrested while trying to cross from Israel into Jordan.Shipler David Israel Holds 10 Arabs for Slaying of 6 Jews in May New York Times 17 September 1980 423982400 An additional six Arab Palestinians were taken into custody, charged with aiding the terrorists by providing lodging and transportation. Trial and sentencing All four assailants were sentenced to life in prison, but were later released in prisoner exchanges. Victims Tzvi Glatt, 20, American-Israeli yeshiva student at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem.Friends of Yeshiva Students Murdered in Hebron Recall Their Objectives https://www.jta.org/1980/05/07/archive/friends-of-yeshiva-students-murdered-in-hebron-recall-their-objectives 18 August 2018 JTA 7 May 1980 A budding scholar, Glatt was the author of "Rise From the Dust".Eisenberg Malka Victim of terror in Hebron believed in Israel http://thejewishstar.com/stories/Victim-of-terror-in-Hebron-believed-in-Israel,5112 19 August 2018 The Jewish Star Shmuel Mermelstein, 21, yeshiva student from Montreal who was studying at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. He was the only victim without Israeli citizenship.Shmuel Mermelstein HY"D http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/04/shmuel-mermelstein-hyd-may-god-avenge.html israelmatzav.blogspot.com 18 August 2018 Gershon Klein, 20, yeshiva student at the Nir Yeshiva in Kiryat Arba. Hanan Krauthamer, 21, from Bnei Brak, French-Israeli yeshiva student at the Nir Yeshiva. Yaakov Zimmerman, 20, from Bnei Brak,טוראי יעקב צימרמן בן בינה ואריה http://www.izkor.gov.il/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91%20%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F/en_33a63ed411bad0fa1fbf187752f70825 izkor.gov.il 19 August 2018 yeshiva student at the Nir Yeshiva. Eli HaZeev, 32, an ultranationalist settler who was a Vietnam veteran, had converted to Judaism and was associated with Meir Kahane's Kach Movement.Times David K. Shipler Special To the New York 1980-05-06 Armed Jews Hold Funeral Procession in Silent Hebron; Member of Group Led by Kahane Arabs Get Israeli Court Injunction https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/06/archives/armed-jews-hold-funeral-procession-in-silent-hebron-member-of-group.html 2025-07-12 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 Glatt and Marmelstein were visiting friends at Kiryat Arba when the attack occurred. Four of the wounded were American citizens: Mordechai Shevat, 21, of The Bronx; Robert Brosovsky, 21; Simha Wollman, 21, of Brooklyn, and Lisa Sherman, 20, of Queens. Assailants All of the assailants were members of Fatah.Claiborne William Israel Charges 10 Palestinians in Hebron Ambush https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/09/17/israel-charges-10-palestinians-in-hebron-ambush/6f01124d-c2e5-45df-b225-d51a9e78fff1/ 17 May 2017 Washington Post 17 September 1980 Members of the ambush squad Yasser Hussein Mohammed Zedat (30), squad leader. From Hebron; fled to Jordan after firing a Katyusha rocket at Kiryat Arba in April 1977; trained in terrorist tactics in Lebanon. Adnan Jabar (32), second in command. Underwent 6 months of intensive training in small arms, explosives, military tactics, and ideology in Skhodnya, Soviet Union in 1974 in a program where Fatah and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine militants trained together. He had also trained in Syria and Lebanon. Tayseer Abu Sneineh (30). Elected Mayor of Hebron in 2017.Palestinian terrorist in killing of 6 Jews elected Hebron mayor https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-terrorist-in-killing-of-6-jews-elected-hebron-mayor/ 17 May 2017 Times of Israel 14 May 2017 Mohammed Shubaki (32). Farmer. Accused in a 1979 shooting murder of an Israeli couple. Accomplices Omar Haroub (30). Accused of providing weapons and transportation on the night of the ambush. A chemistry graduate of the University of Beirut working for a blood bank in East Jerusalem. Impact The attack prompted the government of Menachem Begin to refurbish the Hadassah medical clinic and to permit Jews to live in the Beit Hason and Beit Schneerson buildings adjacent to it.Keinon Herb Jerusalem's elder sister Jerusalem Post 17 January 1997 319182566 The Israeli community of Beit Hagai (House of Haggai) was established in 1982 by former classmates of boys murdered in this attack. In addition to being the name of a Biblical Prophet, Haggai, is an acronym of the given names Hanan Krauthamer, Gershon Klein, and Yaakov Zimmerman, the three Nir Yeshiva (Kiryat Arba) students killed in an attack on 2 May 1980.The Six Murdered Outside Beit Hadassah Jewish Community of Hebron 2006-07-19 http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=273 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100219220059/http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=273 2010-02-19 References Category:1980 mass murders Category:Terrorist incidents in the West Bank in 1980 Category:May 1980 in Asia Category:Fatah attacks 1980 Hebron attack Category:1980 in the Israeli Military Governorate Category:Ambushes of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Category:20th-century mass murders in Palestine Category:Deaths by firearm in the West Bank Category:Massacres of Jews