hand, wounding the child fatally. Segal dies a few hours later. br

His wife has three fingers cut off, and a yeshiva student in the br

house loses his left hand. In the same house the great masmid br

(“eternal learner of Torah”) of the yeshiva, Simcha Yitzhak br

Broida, twenty-eight, of Vilkomir, Lithuania, is dangled head br

down from the window and tortured to death. With him dies br

sixteen-year-old Brooklyn-born Chaim Krasner and a couple br

that have come to Hebron for a Sabbath visit, Asher Moshe and br

Chaya Gutman of Tel Aviv.

The Hebron yeshiva is looted and totally destroyed. All its br

records are ripped to shreds and the furniture destroyed in an br

orgy of madness. The home of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Epstein, br

is a major target of the murderers. They attack in a large force, br

throwing huge stones through the windows. The families inside br

are gripped by terror. The men desperately try to hold the br

doors against the mob, and the women cry out in panic. br

Across the street stands the home of the governor of Hebron. The br

cries of anguish move him to come out onto the balcony and br

order the police, who have been standing by the whole time, to br

chase the mob away. The mob is not impressed. Three times br

they return, and three times the governor calmly orders them to br

be dispersed. It is easily done, but not before sixty-eight-year- br

old Elimelech Zev Lichtenstein is murdered. The day before, br

when the first victim of the Arabs was killed in the yeshiva, br

Lichtenstein was in a side room. Today he has just been called br

up to the Torah, where he gave the traditional blessing of br

thanks, Hagomel, for having been saved. Now, fifteen minutes br

later, he is dead.

The day of horrors nears its end. Outside the small hotel, br

according to The Book of Hebron (edited by Oded Avisar, 1970), br

Eishel Avraham, Sheikh Talib, the Muslim religious leader of br

the town, walks up to the building in which dozens of Jews sit br

huddled in terror. He looks inside to see how many people he br

can count, then leaves. Some moments pass, and suddenly the br

sound of a large mob is heard. The Jews look out the windows br

to see hundreds of Arabs following the Sheikh. They stand br

around him, now, as he speaks to them: “You, Muslims! Inside br

are ten Americans whose parents are millionaires. Slaughter the br

Jews! Drink their blood! Today is the day of Islam! This is the br

day that the Prophet has commanded you! Allah and the br