Last remaining survivor of 1949 Hebron massacre passes away at 100
Yitzhak Ben Hebron was about four years old at the outbreak of the riots that led to the massacre, and managed to escape the violence through the window of the Avraham Avinu Synagogue
Assessment
Yitzhak Ben Hebron was the final living witness to a violent episode that reshaped the Jewish presence in Hebron. His death at 100 closes a chapter of living memory. For readers unfamiliar with the event, his survival story, escaping through a synagogue window as a child, underscores the personal, human dimension of a historical trauma that still echoes in Israeli and Palestinian narratives.