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Press Photo, 5” x 7”, shows young settlers “from the Hebron area built part of a concrete block house near Kiryat Arba in defiance of an IDF ban. A youngster raises the Israeli flag in triumph. The site was designated by the former Likud government as a building site but was frozen by the new Labour Government.” Copyright Israel Sun. Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank. Founded in 1968, in 2023 it had a population of 7,572. According to declassified secret documents, the Israeli government initially issued a military confiscation order for the land, claiming it was for strictly military use. In 1968, a group of religious Zionists led by Moshe Levinger defied the government by renting a hotel in Hebron for Passover and refusing to leave. This act of civil disobedience eventually forced the government to approve the construction of Kiryat Arba as a "compromise". In 1984, a Labour-led National Unity government under Shimon Peres announced a freeze on new settlement activity.In 2016, Netanyahu and Liberman actually approved 42 new units in Kiryat Arba, reversing a previous freeze.