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Honoring the Life of Sarah: 50,000 Jews Gather in Hebron for Shabbat
(Jerusalem Post) Aaron Reich - Some 40,000-50,000 Jews from around the world converged on the city of Hebron and its adjacent sister city, Kiryat Arba, over Shabbat in honor of Sarah, the biblical matriarch of the Jewish people. It coincides with the biblical reading of Chayei Sarah (the Life of Sarah), in which Abraham purchases the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron in which to bury Sarah. The Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs is a large edifice built atop the cave by King Herod over 2,000 years ago. Despite Jewish history at the location going back thousands of years, the Tomb was declared a Palestinian World Heritage Site in 2017 by UNESCO.