Whereas, on July 7, 2017, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), at the request of the permanent delegation of Palestine, designated the ancient city of Hebron as a World Heritage Site in Danger; Whereas UNESCO’s online report of the resolution’s passage refers to the inscription of Hebron as Al Khalil Old town, Palestine ; Whereas the Cave of the Patriarchs, a shrine in ancient Hebron holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, is recognized as the burial place of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish people, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah, and is the second most holy site in Judaism; Whereas the Cave of the Patriarchs sits within a compound constructed by Herod, an ancient King of Judea during the Second Temple Period over 2,000 years ago, to serve as a place for Jewish prayers at the grave sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Judaism; Whereas the city of Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs were conquered 700 years ago by the Mamluks, who converted the Judean compound into a mosque and forbade Jews from entering; Whereas Jews were prohibited from entering the Cave of the Patriarchs until Hebron’s liberation during the 1967 Six-Day War, after which it was re-established as a place where all religions could worship under certain restrictions; Whereas UNESCO’s minimization of Jewish connections to Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs is a politicization of world heritage; Whereas since Palestine was admitted to UNESCO in 2011, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been successful in efforts to have UNESCO designate the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir as Palestinian World Heritage Sites in Danger