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“Hevron Children Clean Up City for Sabbath Celebration”
by Arutz Sheva - Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu   
November 12th, 2009

 Children Clean Up Hevron
Tens of thousands of visitors expected in the Jewish community of Hevron this Sabbath will be walking on streets cleaned up by children in preparations for the annual Torah reading that recounts the forefather Abraham’s purchase of the Patriarchs’ Cave for the burial of his wife, Sarah. The Torah reading is called “The Life of Sarah," named after the first two significant words of the portion that is read by Jews around the world.

Students of yeshiva high schools for boys and for girls in Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hevron, led the clean-up campaign that included the “Worshippers’ Path” from Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hevron, to the entranceway to the Patriarch’s Cave. The path passes Arab houses, whose residents routinely throw trash and garbage on the passageway but are pleased with the clean-up.

The forefathers of Abraham, Isaac (Yitzchak) and Jacob (Yaakov) are buried at the Cave, along with their wives, except for Rachel, who died when she gave birth to Benjamin (Binyamin) at Bethlehem and was buried there.

Known as the Sabbath of The Life of Sarah (Chayey Sarah in Hebrew), it attracts large crowds every year from all over Israel. The IDF and police tighten up security on the main roads to Hevron as well as in the city itself.

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