90 years later, last-known Jewish survivor recalls Hebron massacre

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This happened back in 1929 in the Holy Land; I may have heard of it before but didn't know much about it.

90 years later, last-known Jewish survivor recalls Hebron massacre
Kiryati was then a boy of eight. He and his 18-year-old uncle Moshe Capilouto were in their grandparents’ home as Arabs made their way through the Hebron streets calling for Jews to be slaughtered.
By Tovah Lazaroff
August 23, 2019 04:26


Avraham Kiryati, a survivor of the 1929 Hebron massacre. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

 Time has not dimmed the powerful memories that 98-yearold Avraham Kiryati has of the moment his grandfather Eliyahu Capilouto was stabbed during the Hebron massacre of 1929.

“My grandfather was dressed just like the Arabs,” said Kiryati.

“He went out to see what was going on. They [the rioters] pushed him inside and stabbed him on the side of his body.”

Kiryati was then a boy of eight.

Read more at: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/90-years-later-last-known-Jewish-survivor-recalls-Hebron-massacre-599438

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