ABSTRACT
On June 7, 1967, the third day of the Six Day War, Israeli military forces victoriously entered Hebron, occupying the city along with the entire Palestinian-inhabited West Bank. Moshe Dayan narrated in his autobiography that, after Israel's occupation of the West Bank, he visited the site and searched for an arrangement that would give the Jews the access and ability to worship at the Cave of the Patriarchs without disturbing the Muslim prayers. He tried to explore whether the underground burial cave could encompass Jewish prayer, thus leaving the mosque building untouched by Jews. When this was found impossible, Dayan opted for an arrangement of sharing time and space in the building. The most important part of the commission's report addressed the arrangements of sharing the site between Jews and Muslims. Sharing the site under the post-1994 arrangement raises problems of maintenance, which are coordinated by the Israeli military liaison and the Waqf administrator.
