ISRAEL DECLARES HEBRON AN OFFICIAL JEWISH SETTLEMENT
TOVAH LAZAROFF AUGUST 29, 2017 38 years after returning to the West Bank City, Hebron’s Jewish community has acquired the official status of an independent settlement. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman upgrade the municipal status of the Hebron’s Jewish community, giving them separate powers from Palestinian Municipality that governs the West Bank city. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced the change in the status of the 1,000 Jews in Hebron during briefing he held with reporters in Tel Aviv. A 1997 agreement split the city, of what is now over 220,000 Palestinians, leaving 80 percent of it under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority …