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Four Holy Cities

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Ari Lesser - 4 Holy Cities

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Four Holy Cities

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Episode 1 the City of Hebron. Hebron is one of Israel’s four holy cities.

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ari lesser 4 holy cities

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Why Jerusalem's holy sites are so significant

The Four Holy Cities is the collective term in Jewish tradition applied to the cities of Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and, later, Tiberias, the four main centers of Jewish life after the Ottoman conquest of Israel. The "holy cities" concept dates to the 1640s, with Tiberias joining in 1740, resulting from the creation of an association between the cities for the collection of halukka.
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