Avraham Avino neighborhood

The Avraham Avino neighborhood was established in the 16th century after the area was bought by Jews deported from Spain, they established a neighborhood built as a large and closed courtyard and in the center of it stands the synagogue "Abraham Avino". , Abraham our father came to complete the minyan.

Among the Jews who lived in the "ghetto" for about four hundred and fifty years, there were well-known rabbis and Torah scholars. During the 18th - 17th centuries, the district was built up very densely. The community grew and the Jews avoided living outside the quarter for security reasons, therefore floors were built, one on top of the other, until it reached a height of four or five floors with narrow alleys between them. "A family was added - they stood and added a yard at the top of the roof, yard upon yard, floor upon floor, and filled them with sons and daughters. Blessed is he whose apartment was at the top, who enjoyed the warm light and fresh air: and woe to him whose apartment was at the bottom, who did not see a line of light from his days" (p Avisher "Sefer Hebron").

Despite the overcrowding in the quarter, exemplary cleanliness and order prevailed, and despite its poverty, every guest who came to Hebron was treated to a meal for several days, at the community's expense.

In 1929, Jewish residents of the quarter were brutally tortured and murdered by their Arab neighbors, the quarter was looted and looted.

After the Jordanian occupation in 1978, the Arabs destroyed the Jewish quarter and built a wholesale market, a garbage collection center and a garbage disposal house on it. A goat and donkey shed was built on the ruins of the Avraham Avino Synagogue.

In 1967, after the great efforts of the late Professor Ben Zion Tabgar, who was arrested several times, the government allowed the evacuation of the animal shelter and the uncovering of the remains of the synagogue.

The settlers of Hebron renewed the neighborhood and built several residential buildings and the guest house "Eshel Avraham"

In 2001, the baby Shalhab Pess was murdered in the neighborhood by a sniper who was standing on the hill of Abu Sanina opposite and aimed at the little baby's stroller that was near the playground.