Places of Interest BACK

Last stronghold of 1948: ruins opposite museum in Kfar Etzion. Former summer home of Benedictine Fathers in Jerusalem. Twenty women and children entombed for nineteen years after the building was dynamited in 1948.

Field School Igloos: at Kfar Etzion. Youth hostel and dormitories for students.

Museum: pictorial display of history of settlement in the area. Names of slain defenders inscribed on one wall. Memorial candle in wax-filled upturned soldier's helmet. Audio-visual presentation and historical archives. Open: Sun.-Thurs. 8.30 a.m. - 4 p.m., Fri. 8.30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Winter: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Fri. Closed Sat. Entrance fee. Tel. (02)9935133
If you have made prior security arrangements, continue along Road No. 60, drive past typical examples of the profuse viticulture of the Hebron area, with small Arab villages hugging the roadside. The road rises slightly and peaks at just over 1,000 m. above sea level near Hebron.
Turn left in Halhul for a look at the traditional Tombs of Gad and Nathan, set behind a courtyard of a private Arab house.
During the remaining 4 km. to Hebron you will pass by several open-air glass factories that have made Hebron famous. You can stop and watch the entire process from treatment in the red-hot furnaces to the art of glass- blowing. The wares sold at these factories and stalls are much cheaper than the identical jars, vases, plates and other glassware offered for sale in the heart of the city.