Beit Hason

On the north side of the Beit Hadassah neighborhood, a building was built today called 'Beit Hason' after the Hason family who lived there and were murdered in the events of 1929.

The building itself was built as part of the Hesed Lavraham sanatorium complex and was used by the Sephardic Magan Avot, who led a full community life there.

In 1929, the Arabs of Hebron brutally murdered the Jews of Hebron, and the survivors were evacuated from the city, but about four years later, Jews returned to Hebron and built another floor to Beit Hasson to be used as a yeshiva named after the Hebron Kabbalist Rabbi Amram Ben Doan.

In 1936, before the Jews had finished establishing the Yeshiva, bloody riots broke out again in different parts of the country, and the British Mandate government once again evacuated the Jews of Hebron for fear of another massacre.

The settlers of the renewed Jewish settlement added a third floor to the building.