page_title: Hebron Yeshiva
section_title: 1929 Hebron massacre and relocation to Jerusalem
hierarchical_section_title: Hebron Yeshiva / 1929 Hebron massacre and relocation to Jerusalem
caption_attribution_description: English: Hebron yeshivah students. All but one were killed in the 1929 massacre.
context_page_description: Hebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, is a yeshiva devoted to high-level study of the Talmud. It originated in 1924 when the roshei yeshiva and 150 students of the Slabodka Yeshiva, known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas", relocated to Hebron.
context_section_description: Twenty-four students were murdered in the 1929 Hebron massacre, and the yeshiva was re-established in the Geula neighbourhood of Jerusalem. 
  On the day of the 1929 massacre, HaRav Simcha Zissel Broide, who was appointed Rosh Yeshiva in 5721 (1960/61), was not in Chevron.
  Despite a delay after the death of Rabbi Moshe Hebroni, the last of the previous generation, the yeshiva moved into a new and larger campus in the south-central Givat Mordechai neighbourhood in 1975. This yeshiva today has about 1300 students and is one of the most prestigious and influential Lithuanian yeshivohs in Israel. The current roshei yeshiva are Rabbi Dovid Cohen and Rabbi Yosef Chevroni.
caption: Hebron yeshiva students, circa 1920s. All but one of these students perished in the pogrom.
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