Ma'arat HaMachpelah Archives

accessibility to the Cave of the Patriarchs

March 6, 2021

If this was about a mosque, the elevator would have been built decades ago.

Finally! The end of a surrealistic battle that should shame everyone who fought against making a religious site accessible to the disabled, the elderly and pregnant women who are left at the bottom of...

carrying disabled person in wheelchair up stairs leading to entrance to the cave of the patriarchs

First-Hand and Investigative

November 14, 2019

When an Elevator is Not Just an Elevator

The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is visited by nearly a million people annually, Jews, Muslims, Christians who come to worship at the burial site of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their wives...

The steps leading from Kiryat Arba to Hebron

First-Hand and Investigative

April 1, 2018

60 Minutes On The Steps Outside Of Kiryat Arba

I went to Kiryat Arba for the Passover Seder this year and I want to tell you something about my visit. Kiryat Arba is a town of about 8000 Jews, founded in 1968, just...