List of people from Hebron
The following is a list of notable people both born in Hebron and otherwise associated with the city.
People born in Hebron
- Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia (1660–1744), 17th-century renewer of Jewish settlement in Tiberias
- Basel Adra, 21st-century journalist
- Jacob Alyashar (1730–c. 1790), Talmudist and emissary
- Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal (1733–1777), rabbi, friend of Yale president Ezra Stiles
- Mazen Dana (1962–2003), Palestinian journalist killed by United States soldiers in Baghdad
- Fadi Elsalameen (born 1983), Palestinian activist and blogger
- Yoav Goldstein, 4th-Century BCE gold dealer and Martyr, known as the Forefather of the Goldstein clan
- Hasan Hourani (1974–2003), Palestinian artist
- Muhammad Ali Ja'abari, long-serving mayor of Hebron
- Sulaiman Ja'abari, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
- Abraham Konki, 17th-century Hebronite rabbi
- Yitzhaq Shami, Jewish-Israeli writer whose characters were often Arabs or Sephardic Jews
People associated with Hebron
- Eliezer ben-Arhah, rabbi, from about 1615 until his death in 1652
- Chaim Hezekiah Medini, rabbi and author of Sdei Chemed. Buried in Old Jewish cemetery, Hebron
References
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