Hebron University
university in Palestine
Hebron University (Arabic: جامعة الخليل) is a non-profit, public university in the city of Hebron, West Bank, Palestine. It has an undergraduate enrollment of more than 10,000 students.
History
The late mayor of Hebron, Sheikh Mohammad ‘Ali Al-Ja’bari, wished to establish an institution of higher learning to offset restrictions and obstacles created by the occupation by Israel. In 1971, the foundation was laid and forty-three students joined the 'Sharia' college from different parts of the Palestinian Territories.
in 1983, the campus was attacked by Israeli settlers, resulting in the deaths of three students and injury of 50 students. After the attack, the university was temporarily closed by the newly formed Israeli Civil Administration.
During the First Intifada the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) closed the university from January 1988 to June 1991.
In 1996, Hebron University was closed for six months by the IDF. The chairman of the university accompanied by teaching faculty conducted classes on the pavement outside the university walls in objection to the closure and repeated closure orders by the IDF.
Eventually, the college became a university. As of 2016, there are nine undergraduate colleges and one college of graduate studies.
Board of trustees
Hebron University is governed by an autonomous Board of Trustees composed of educators and professionals from the Palestinian community.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1138268. VIAF identifies the subject as 148285811. The Library of Congress control number is n87849867. Authority coordinates are 31.550, 35.093. None of the 5 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1983, 1988 and 1991.
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