The three Bedouins

The Sukkah of the community was revered and sanctified by the people of Hebron because of an act that was:

Once, between a year and a half, a bloody war broke out in the villages of the Negev Mountain in the Hebron district. At the head of the opponents stood on one side the men of Adoraim, and on the other the men of Beit Govrin. Dozens of dead fell from these, and were thrown in the mountains as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Dread and fear gripped all the inhabitants of the city of the ancestors and there was no one who dared to go on the road. And the Sukkot holiday is getting closer and there is no one to bring thatch to the Jews. The seven good men of the city gathered and found no advice. Is it permissible to risk lives for the mitzvah of sitting in the sukkah? Wait and expect God's mercy...

And it happened on the 14th day of Tishrei, at dawn, and behold, three Bedouins appeared in the community square armed from head to toe, and they were leading three camels loaded with straw and willow. The Bedouins unloaded the trees and they and their camels left. Beit Midrash to come and drag the thatch to the synagogue.

With enthusiasm and joy the work was done and there was not one left in Hebron who did not lend his hand to the work. That same year, all the Jews turned together in the congregation's sukkah and said: "Who are these Jews if not the fathers of the world?"

(Book of Hebron narrated by D. Avisher)