The 24 Jewish families who recently returned to Hebron, after the town had been left for almost two years without any Jews since the Jewish population fled after the massacres of August 1929, celebrated the Pentecost festival this week amid the felicitations of their Arab neighbours, who welcomed the returning Jews, one of the returned Hebron Jewish refugees has informed the J.T.A.
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