Deep inside the earth at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, ... Such burials hark back to the Jewish patriarch Abraham, who, the Bible says, bought the cave of Machpelah in Hebron as a family crypt.

The Cave of Machpelah, known in Hebrew as Meorath Hamachpeilah, is referred to in the Bible as the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as well as of Rebecca and Leah.

Repeated attacks on Jewish visitors to the Cave of Machpelah, near Hebron, perpetrated by Arab youths, led to a formal protest lodged with the Vaad Leumi, National Council of Palestine Jews, by ...

The Torah attaches great importance to Abraham’s purchase of the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron as a burial place for his wife Sarah. ‘THE CAVE of Machpelah’ by Yoram Raanan.