The Ibrahim Mahmoud Ibregeith Collection
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Born on 2 April 1958, Ibrahim Mahmoud Ibregeith is from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. He studied banking sciences at al-Andalus College in Amman and graduated in the late 1970s. After that, he worked as a truck driver on the Jordanian Saudi roads, accompanied by his brother. In 1985, he returned to Palestine, where he married and worked as a farmer with his father. In the early 1990s, Ibregeith decided to return to his work as a driver between the cities of the West Bank to the Jordanian border. He also opened a shop and was the main breadwinner for his family until the beginning of the Second Intifada 2000.
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The Ibrahim Mahmoud Ibregeith Collection includes nineteen archival items, the largest part of which covers part of the economic and military system that the people of the village of Beit Ummar, located in the Hebron district, experienced when it was part of the Jerusalem district.
The collection contains a service book for the Ottoman army issued in 1901 AD, tax payment receipts during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and a military pass in the 1940s issued by the Iraqi authorities in the name of two Palestinians working for the British military authorities.