Hebron Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
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The Hebron Subdistrict was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located around the city of
Hebron Hebron (; , or ; , ) is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Hebron is capital of the Hebron Governorate, the largest Governorates of Palestine, governorate in the West Bank. With a population of 201,063 in ...
. After the
1948 Arab-Israeli War Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...
, the subdistrict was divided between Israel and the West Bank.


Depopulated towns and villages

(current localities in parentheses) * 'Ajjur (
Agur Agur ben Jakeh () was a sage and a compiler of a collection of proverbs found in Proverbs 30, which is sometimes known as the ''Book of Agur'' or ''Sayings of Agur''. Biblical accounts The initial text of the chapter runs as follows ( JPS trans ...
, Li-On, Tirosh) * Barqusya *
Bayt Jibrin Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin ( lit. 'House of the Powerful') was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict of British Mandatory Palestine, in what is today the State of Israel, which was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was ...
( Beit Guvrin) * Bayt Nattif *
al-Dawayima Al-Dawayima, Dawaymeh or Dawayma () was a Palestinian people, Palestinian town, located in the former Hebron Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Hebron Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, and in what is now the Hevel Lakhish, Lakhish region, some 15 ...
( Amatzya) * Deir al-Dubban ( Luzit) * Dayr Nakhkhas * Kudna ( Beit Nir) * Mughallis ( Gefen) * al-Qubayba (
Lachish Lachish (; ; ) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite city in the Shephelah ("lowlands of Judea") region of Canaan on the south bank of the Lakhish River mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. The current '' tell'' by that name, kn ...
) * Ra'na ( Gal On) * Tell es-Safi * Khirbat Umm Burj ( Nehusha) * az-Zakariyya ( Zekharia) * Zayta * Zikrin Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine {{Mandate-Palestine-stub