Beit Romano

Beit Romano was built in 1879 by the gentleman Avraham Romano, as part of the exit from the "Ghetto", and it was used as a hospitality center, and inside it was built a synagogue called the "Istanbul Synagogue".

In 1901, Rabbi Hezekiah Medini immigrated to Israel and opened a yeshiva in Beit Romano, where he finished writing the great Talmudic encyclopedia "Shedi Hamad".

In 1912, the house was bought by the Rebbe of Chabad and the large yeshiva "Torat Emet" was established there, but with the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, the Turkish government expropriated Beit Romano and turned it into a police station.

When the British entered Hebron in 1917, they continued to use the building as a police station, this is the same police that abandoned the lives of the Jews in the 1929 riots, and the wounded and the dead of the massacre were gathered at Beit Romano.

After the Jordanian occupation, in 1948, the Arabs established a school in Beit Romano, which continued to operate even after the IDF liberated the city in the Six Day War in 1967.

In 1981, after the murder of six Jews near Beit Hadassah, the government returned the building to the Jews. The "Shebi Hebron" yeshiva, led by Rabbi Moshe Bleicher, which began in Beit Hadassah, was copied from the synagogue in the Avraham Avino neighborhood of Beit Romano. Along with the Yeshiva also came individual families who lived in trailers next to the ancient building. One family even lived in the building itself.

In 1996, the "Shebi Hebron" yeshiva began to carry out renovations to expand the building and add two floors. For the purpose of strengthening the foundations, excavations were conducted which surprisingly revealed another floor that was buried in the ground. Next to the ancient building of Beit Romano, a large dining room and a Panemia building for students were built.