Rabbi Judah Bibas predated Theodor Herzl and the Zionist movement by decades. In recent years his teachings on Jewish autonomy and self-determination have received the attention lacking for so many years. Hear what a Scottish church minister thought when meeting him in 1839 and his influence on Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai and other forerunners to the creation of the State of Israel.
Learn of the desecration of the Hebron cemetery and how the exact location of the tombstone of Rabbi Bibas was lost for decades until this month when an elderly Hebron native and new aerial photos solved the mystery.



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