:Hebron Governorate

{{Infobox settlement

|image_map = Hebron in Palestine.svg

|coordinates = {{Coord|31.5|35.1|region:PS-HBN_type:adm1st|display=ti}}

|image_skyline = 2018 OCHA OpT map Hebron.jpg

|caption = 2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements in the governorate

|area_total_km2 = 1060

|population_footnotes = {{cite web |title=Main Indicators by Type of Locality - Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017 |url=http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128121306/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf |url-status=dead |publisher=Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) |access-date=2021-01-19}}

|population_total = 711,223

|population_as_of = 2017 Census

|population_note = This figure excludes the Israeli West Bank settlements

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = {{PSE}}

|iso_code = PS-HBN

}}

The Hebron Governorate ({{langx|ar|محافظة الخليل|Muḥāfaẓat al-Khalīl}}) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

The governorate's land area is {{convert|1060|km2}} and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510. This makes the Hebron Governorate the largest of 16 governorates in both population and land area in the Palestinian territories.[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1710.pdf Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 2]; {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193303/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1710.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}. pp. 59, 60. PCBS, November 2010. The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate. The governor is Hussein al-Araj and its district commander{{ambiguous|date=September 2024}} is Abdel Fattah al-Ju’eidi.[https://web.archive.org/web/20040123075309/http://www.aloufok.net/article.php3?id_article=150 Hébron]

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.[https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files2/update_july_1.1989.pdf B'Tselem information sheet] (July 1989). p. 4.

Localities

The Hebron Governorate has a total of seven cities and eighteen towns. The governorate also contains more than 100 Bedouin villages and settlements that are not listed below.

=Cities=

=Municipalities=

The following localities have municipality status from the Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority.

=Village councils=

The following have populations over 1,000 persons.

=Refugee camps=

Demographics

class="wikitable" !Year !Muslims !Christians !Jews !Total !Notes and sources
1538 \|749 h \|7 h \|20 h \|776 h \|(h = households), Cohen & Lewis{{cite book \|last1=Lewis \|first1=Bernard \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVp9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 \|title=Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century \|last2=Cohen \|first2=Amnon \|date=March 8, 2015 \|publisher=Princeton University Press \|isbn=978-1-4008-6779-0 \|page=109}}
1774 \| \| \|300 \| \|Azulai[https://books.google.com/books?id=QgMPAQAAIAAJ רבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי], Meir Benayhu, Mosad Harav Kook, 1959.
1817 \| \| \|500 \| \|Israel Foreign Ministry{{cite web \|title=Hebron \|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron.html \|work=Jewish Virtual Library}}
1820 \| \| \|1,000 \| \|William Turner{{Cite book \|title = Journal of a tour in the Levant \|last = Turner \|first = W. \|author-link = William Turner (envoy) \|publisher = John Murray \|volume = 2 \|year = 1820 \|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yYQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA261 \|access-date = February 21, 2012 \| page=261 }}
1824 \| \| \|60 h \| \|(40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald{{cite news \|date=March 1825 \|title=American Board of Foreign Missions: Palestine Mission \|url=https://archive.org/details/missionaryheral10missgoog/page/n75 \|newspaper=The Missionary Herald \|page=65}}
1832 \|400 h \| \|100 h \|500 h \|(h = households), Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson{{cite book \|author=Augustin Calmet \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v1ga4m9vIhYC&pg=PA488 \|title=Dictionary of the Holy Bible \|publisher=Crocker and Brewster \|year=1832 \|isbn=978-1-4047-8796-4 \|page=488}}
1837 \| \| \|423 \| \|Montefiore census
1838 \|c. 6000–7,000 \|"few" \|700 \|7–8,000 \|William McClure ThomsonWilliam McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, p. 275
1839 \|1295 f \|1 f \|241 \| \|(f = families), David RobertsRobinson, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa&cc=moa&idno=afg7241.0002.001&q1=hebron&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=106 p. 88]David Roberts, The Holy Land – 123 Coloured Facsimile Lithographs and The Journal from his visit to the Holy Land. Terra Sancta Arts. 1982. {{ISBN\|978-965-260-001-1}}. Plate III – 13. Journal entry March 17, 1839.
1840 \| \| \|700–800 \| \|James A. Huie{{cite book \|author=James A. Huie \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA242 \|title=The history of the Jews, from the taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the present time [by J.A. Huie]. \|year=1840 \|page=242}}
1851 \|11,000 \| \|450 \| \|Official registerPEF Survey of Western Palestine, Volume III, p. 309
1851 \| \| \|400 \| \|Clorinda Minor{{cite book \|author=Clorinda Minor \|author-link=Clorinda S. Minor \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJjHFBTIXboC&pg=PA58 \|title=Meshullam!: Or, Tidings from Jerusalem \|publisher=Arno Press \|year=1851 \|isbn=978-0-405-10302-5 \|page=58}}
1866 \| \| \|497 \| \|Montefiore census
1871–2 \|2,800 h \| \|200 h \|3,000 h \|Ottoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these yearsAlexander Scholch (Schölch), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/163415 "The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850-1882"]. International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 17, No. 4. (November 1985). p. 486.
1875 \|8,000–10,000 \| \|500 \| \|Albert Socin
1875 \|17,000 \| \|600 \| \|Hebron Kaymakam
1881 \| \| \|1,000–1,200 \| \|PEF Survey of Palestine
1881 \| \| \|800 \|5,000 \|The Friend{{cite news \|date=May 28, 1881 \|title=Jewish Life in the East \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SorTAAAAMAAJ \|work=The Friend \|page=333 \|volume=54–55}}
1890 \| \| \|1,490 \| \|[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7465-hebron Jewish Encyclopedia]
1895 \| \| \|1,400 \| \|{{cite book \|author=Tzvi Rabinowicz \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OprXAAAAMAAJ \|title=The Encyclopedia of Hasidism \|publisher=Jason Aronson \|year=1996 \|isbn=978-1-56821-123-7}}
1906 \| \| \|1,100 \|14,000 \|(690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim), [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7465-hebron Jewish Encyclopedia]
1922 \|16,074 \|73 \|430 \|16,577 \|1922 census of PalestineBarron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n12/mode/1up 10]
1929 \| \| \|700 \| \|Israel Foreign Ministry
1930 \| \| \|0 \| \|Israel Foreign Ministry
1931 \|17,277 \|109 \|134 \|17,532 \|1931 census of Palestine{{cite book \|author=Jessie Sampter \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QZ8wqJUfgEC&pg=RA1-PA125 \|title=Modern Palestine – A Symposium \|publisher=Read Books \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-1-4067-3834-6}}
1938 \| \| \|0 \|20,400 \|Village Statistics, 1938{{Cite book \|url=https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VillageStatistics1938orig.pdf \|title=Village Statistics \|year=1938 \|pages=52}}
1945 \|24,400 \|150 \|0 \|24,560 \|Village Statistics, 1945Government of Palestine (1945), A Survey of Palestine, Vol. 1, p. 151
1961 \| \| \| \|37,868 \|Jordanian censusFirst Census, Government of Jordan. 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p06.pdf 06][http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_intro_tab_i.pdf West Bank, Volume 1 Table I – West Bank population according to 1967 census and Jordanian 1961 census], Levy Economics Institute
1967 \|38,073 \|136 \| \|38,348 \|Israeli census[http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_tab_4.pdf West Bank, Volume 1 Table 4 – Population by religion, sex, age, and type of settlement], Levy Economics Institute
1997 \|n/a \|n/a \| \|119,093 \|Palestinian census{{Cite web \|title=Palestinian Census 1997 \|url=http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/_PCBS/census/phc_97/heb_t1.aspx \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115053903/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/_PCBS/census/phc_97/heb_t1.aspx \|archive-date=November 15, 2010}}
2007 \|n/a \|n/a \| \|163,146 \|Palestinian censusThe last official census in 2007 gave 165,000.[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf 2007 Locality Population Statistics] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210081942/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf\|date=2010-12-10}} [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1583.pdf Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304122858/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1583.pdf\|date=2012-03-04}}. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Muslims

!Christians

!Jews

!Total

!Notes and sources

1538

|749 h

|7 h

|20 h

|776 h

|(h = households), Cohen & Lewis{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVp9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |title=Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century |last2=Cohen |first2=Amnon |date=March 8, 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-6779-0 |page=109}}

1774

|

|300

|

|Azulai[https://books.google.com/books?id=QgMPAQAAIAAJ רבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי], Meir Benayhu, Mosad Harav Kook, 1959.

1817

|

|500

|

|Israel Foreign Ministry{{cite web |title=Hebron |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron.html |work=Jewish Virtual Library}}

1820

|

|1,000

|

|William Turner{{Cite book |title = Journal of a tour in the Levant |last = Turner |first = W. |author-link = William Turner (envoy) |publisher = John Murray |volume = 2 |year = 1820 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yYQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA261 |access-date = February 21, 2012 | page=261 }}

1824

|

|60 h

|

|(40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald{{cite news |date=March 1825 |title=American Board of Foreign Missions: Palestine Mission |url=https://archive.org/details/missionaryheral10missgoog/page/n75 |newspaper=The Missionary Herald |page=65}}

1832

|400 h

|

|100 h

|500 h

|(h = households), Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson{{cite book |author=Augustin Calmet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v1ga4m9vIhYC&pg=PA488 |title=Dictionary of the Holy Bible |publisher=Crocker and Brewster |year=1832 |isbn=978-1-4047-8796-4 |page=488}}

1837

|

|423

|

|Montefiore census

1838

|c. 6000–7,000

|"few"

|700

|7–8,000

|William McClure ThomsonWilliam McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, p. 275

1839

|1295 f

|1 f

|241

|

|(f = families), David RobertsRobinson, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa&cc=moa&idno=afg7241.0002.001&q1=hebron&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=106 p. 88]David Roberts, The Holy Land – 123 Coloured Facsimile Lithographs and The Journal from his visit to the Holy Land. Terra Sancta Arts. 1982. {{ISBN|978-965-260-001-1}}. Plate III – 13. Journal entry March 17, 1839.

1840

|

|700–800

|

|James A. Huie{{cite book |author=James A. Huie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA242 |title=The history of the Jews, from the taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the present time [by J.A. Huie]. |year=1840 |page=242}}

1851

|11,000

|

|450

|

|Official registerPEF Survey of Western Palestine, Volume III, p. 309

1851

|

|400

|

|Clorinda Minor{{cite book |author=Clorinda Minor |author-link=Clorinda S. Minor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJjHFBTIXboC&pg=PA58 |title=Meshullam!: Or, Tidings from Jerusalem |publisher=Arno Press |year=1851 |isbn=978-0-405-10302-5 |page=58}}

1866

|

|497

|

|Montefiore census

1871–2

|2,800 h

|

|200 h

|3,000 h

|Ottoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these yearsAlexander Scholch (Schölch), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/163415 "The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850-1882"]. International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 17, No. 4. (November 1985). p. 486.

1875

|8,000–10,000

|

|500

|

|Albert Socin

1875

|17,000

|

|600

|

|Hebron Kaymakam

1881

|

|1,000–1,200

|

|PEF Survey of Palestine

1881

|

|800

|5,000

|The Friend{{cite news |date=May 28, 1881 |title=Jewish Life in the East |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SorTAAAAMAAJ |work=The Friend |page=333 |volume=54–55}}

1890

|

|1,490

|

|[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7465-hebron Jewish Encyclopedia]

1895

|

|1,400

|

|{{cite book |author=Tzvi Rabinowicz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OprXAAAAMAAJ |title=The Encyclopedia of Hasidism |publisher=Jason Aronson |year=1996 |isbn=978-1-56821-123-7}}

1906

|

|1,100

|14,000

|(690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim), [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7465-hebron Jewish Encyclopedia]

1922

|16,074

|73

|430

|16,577

|1922 census of PalestineBarron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n12/mode/1up 10]

1929

|

|700

|

|Israel Foreign Ministry

1930

|

|0

|

|Israel Foreign Ministry

1931

|17,277

|109

|134

|17,532

|1931 census of Palestine{{cite book |author=Jessie Sampter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QZ8wqJUfgEC&pg=RA1-PA125 |title=Modern Palestine – A Symposium |publisher=Read Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-4067-3834-6}}

1938

|

|0

|20,400

|Village Statistics, 1938{{Cite book |url=https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VillageStatistics1938orig.pdf |title=Village Statistics |year=1938 |pages=52}}

1945

|24,400

|150

|0

|24,560

|Village Statistics, 1945Government of Palestine (1945), A Survey of Palestine, Vol. 1, p. 151

1961

|

|37,868

|Jordanian censusFirst Census, Government of Jordan. 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p06.pdf 06][http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_intro_tab_i.pdf West Bank, Volume 1 Table I – West Bank population according to 1967 census and Jordanian 1961 census], Levy Economics Institute

1967

|38,073

|136

|

|38,348

|Israeli census[http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_tab_4.pdf West Bank, Volume 1 Table 4 – Population by religion, sex, age, and type of settlement], Levy Economics Institute

1997

|n/a

|

|119,093

|Palestinian census{{Cite web |title=Palestinian Census 1997 |url=http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/_PCBS/census/phc_97/heb_t1.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115053903/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/_PCBS/census/phc_97/heb_t1.aspx |archive-date=November 15, 2010}}

2007

|n/a

|

|163,146

|Palestinian censusThe last official census in 2007 gave 165,000.[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf 2007 Locality Population Statistics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210081942/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf|date=2010-12-10}} [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1583.pdf Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304122858/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1583.pdf|date=2012-03-04}}. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

References

External links

[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1799.pdf Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 3 (2011)]

Category:Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank