A significant and highly symbolic event unfolded this week in the Old City of Hebron, as a group of Israeli yeshiva students and their families entered and occupied a historic Jewish-owned house for the first time in nearly a century. The move marks a dramatic return to a property that had been out of Jewish hands since the infamous 1929 riots, which led to the brutal massacre of 67 Jews and the expulsion of the city's entire Jewish community.
The building, known as the Valero house, was owned by a Jewish family before the 1929 pogrom. The students, who are affiliated with the Yeshiva Shavei Hebron, announced their presence on Tuesday morning. In a statement released by the yeshiva, they declared the house "liberated from the Arab occupiers" and affixed a mezuzah to the door, symbolically reclaiming it as a Jewish home.
