Hebron Governorate

The Hebron Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الخليل, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat al-Ḫalīl) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

Hebron Governorate
Governorate
2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements in the governorate
Coordinates: 31.5°N 35.1°E / 31.5; 35.1
Country	Palestine
Area
• Total	1,060 km2 (410 sq mi)
Population  (2017 Census)[1]
• Total	711,223
	This figure excludes the Israeli West Bank settlements
ISO 3166 code	PS-HBN

The governorate's land area is 1,060 square kilometres (410 sq mi) 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.^[2] 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] is Abdel Fattah al-Ju’eidi.^[3]

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.^[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.^[2]

Cities

• Dura
• Halhul
• Hebron (capital)
• Yatta
• ad-Dhahiriya

Municipalities

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

Bani Na'im Beit 'Awwa Beit Ula Beit Ummar Deir Sammit Idhna Kharas

Nuba Sa'ir as-Samu Surif Tarqumiya Taffuh

Village councils

The following have populations over 1,000 persons.

Al Baqa Beit 'Amra Beit Einun Beit Kahil Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa al-Burj Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa ad-Duwwara Hadab al-Fawwar al-Heila Hureiz Imreish Karma al-Karmil Khalet al-Maiyya Khursa Ruq'a

al-Kum Khirbet Safa Khirbat al-Simia Kuseis al-Majd Qalqas Qila al-Ramadien ar-Rihiya ash-Shuyukh Shuyukh al-Arrub as-Sura at-Tabaqa al-Uddeisa Zif

Refugee camps

• al-Arroub
• al-Fawwar

Demographics

Year	Muslims	Christians	Jews	Total	Notes and sources
1538	749 h	7 h	20 h	776 h	(h = households), Cohen & Lewis[5]
1774			300		Azulai[6]
1817			500		Israel Foreign Ministry[7]
1820			1,000		William Turner[8]
1824			60 h		(40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald[9]
1832	400 h		100 h	500 h	(h = households), Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson[10]
1837			423		Montefiore census
1838	c. 6000–7,000	"few"	700	7–8,000	William McClure Thomson[11]
1839	1295 f	1 f	241		(f = families), David Roberts[12][13]
1840			700–800		James A. Huie[14]
1851	11,000		450		Official register[15]
1851			400		Clorinda Minor[16]
1866			497		Montefiore census
1871–2	2,800 h		200 h	3,000 h	Ottoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these years[17]
1875	8,000–10,000		500		Albert Socin[15]
1875	17,000		600		Hebron Kaymakam[15]
1881			1,000–1,200		PEF Survey of Palestine[15]
1881			800	5,000	The Friend[18]
1890			1,490		Jewish Encyclopedia
1895			1,400		[19]
1906			1,100	14,000	(690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim), Jewish Encyclopedia
1922	16,074	73	430	16,577	1922 census of Palestine[20]
1929			700		Israel Foreign Ministry[7]
1930			0		Israel Foreign Ministry[7]
1931	17,277	109	134	17,532	1931 census of Palestine[21]
1938			0	20,400	Village Statistics, 1938[22]
1945	24,400	150	0	24,560	Village Statistics, 1945[23]
1961				37,868	Jordanian census[24][25]
1967	38,073	136		38,348	Israeli census[26]
1997	n/a	n/a		119,093	Palestinian census[27]
2007	n/a	n/a		163,146	Palestinian census[28]

See also

• Governorates of Palestine

References

1. "Main Indicators by Type of Locality - Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
2. Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 2; Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 59, 60. PCBS, November 2010.
3. Hébron
4. B'Tselem information sheet (July 1989). p. 4.
5. Lewis, Bernard; Cohen, Amnon (March 8, 2015). Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century. Princeton University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4008-6779-0.
6. רבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי, Meir Benayhu, Mosad Harav Kook, 1959.
7. "Hebron". Jewish Virtual Library.
8. Turner, W. (1820). Journal of a tour in the Levant. Vol. 2. John Murray. p. 261. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
9. "American Board of Foreign Missions: Palestine Mission". The Missionary Herald. March 1825. p. 65.
10. Augustin Calmet (1832). Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Crocker and Brewster. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-4047-8796-4.
11. William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, p. 275
12. Robinson, p. 88
13. 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.
14. James A. Huie (1840). The history of the Jews, from the taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the present time [by J.A. Huie]. p. 242.
15. PEF Survey of Western Palestine, Volume III, p. 309
16. Clorinda Minor (1851). Meshullam!: Or, Tidings from Jerusalem. Arno Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-405-10302-5.
17. Alexander Scholch (Schölch), "The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850-1882". International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 17, No. 4. (November 1985). p. 486.
18. "Jewish Life in the East". The Friend. Vol. 54–55. May 28, 1881. p. 333.
19. Tzvi Rabinowicz (1996). The Encyclopedia of Hasidism. Jason Aronson. ISBN 978-1-56821-123-7.
20. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10
21. Jessie Sampter (2007). Modern Palestine – A Symposium. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-3834-6.
22. Village Statistics (PDF). 1938. p. 52.
23. Government of Palestine (1945), A Survey of Palestine, Vol. 1, p. 151
24. First Census, Government of Jordan. 1964, p. 06
25. West Bank, Volume 1 Table I – West Bank population according to 1967 census and Jordanian 1961 census, Levy Economics Institute
26. West Bank, Volume 1 Table 4 – Population by religion, sex, age, and type of settlement, Levy Economics Institute
27. "Palestinian Census 1997". Archived from the original on November 15, 2010.
28. The last official census in 2007 gave 165,000.2007 Locality Population Statistics Archived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007 Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

External links

• Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 3 (2011)