Yeshivat Shavei Hevron
Settler yeshiva in Beit Romano, Hebron
Yeshivat Shavei Hevron (Hebrew: ישיבת שבי חברון) is a yeshiva of Israeli settlers in Beit Romano, a building in the old city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank that was bought by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in 1909.[1]
History
Beit Romano housed the Chabad yeshiva Torat Emet from 1912 until 1914, when the Ottoman authorities seized it. Under Jordanian rule it was a girls' school with a bus station on the land. According to Lubavitch.com, after an attack nearby killed a yeshiva student in 1980, the Israeli government "returned the building and its surrounding land to Jewish hands"; Shavei Hevron moved in and an army base was built on the land.[1] The Jewish Community of Hebron, the settlers' organisation, says the building "became home to the Shavei Hevron yeshiva in the 1980s", and that Rabbi Medini's study has been recreated there, with the original Ottoman land deeds and photographs of the Chabad rabbis who taught there on the walls.[2]
Size and buildings
B'Tselem reported in 2019 that about 300 students attend the yeshiva, and that they made up about 300 of the roughly 700 settlers living in the Israeli-controlled H2 area of Hebron. It says a new ten-storey dormitory was added to the yeshiva in 2013, "right next to the Palestinian market in Hebron's Old City, where shop doors have been welded shut by the military".[3] Lubavitch.com says that two more floors were added to Beit Romano during renovations in the late 1990s, giving it five storeys.[1]
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, Site of New Hebron Neighborhood Was Purchased by Chabad in 1909 Lubavitch.com, 17 October 2018, accessed 23 October 2026.
- ↑ The Jewish Community of Hebron, The History of Chabad in Hebron hebron.org.il, 1 January 2019, accessed 23 October 2026.
- ↑ B'Tselem, Playing the Security Card: Israeli Policy in Hebron as a Means to Effect Forcible Transfer of Local Palestinians btselem.org, September 2019, pp. 8–9, accessed 25 October 2026.