Reply to Aka: Don't you just love Google???
I was able to debunk your so-called refutation in about 3 minutes by typing in "Hebron" and "Jewish City". (not sure why you used the word SIC here. I guess you thought they are all "settlements" implying that they are very recent additions to the landscape)

Here is a quote from one article:

In 1890, Hebron had a population of 1,500 Jews with an impressive number of yeshivot and religious schools. And in 1925, the famous Lithuanian Yeshivah of Slobodka was transferred to Hebron. The 38-century-old continuous presence of the Jews in Hebron was briefly interrupted following the 1929 brutal massacre by the Arabs of Hebron upon their Jewish neighbors. In this pogrom, scores were killed and wounded and the Jewish hospital Beit Hadassah was ransacked, together with the medieval Avraham Avinu synagogue, which was burned down with its Torah scrolls.

The surviving Jews fled for their lives, only to return two years later (1931) in an attempt to rebuild their shattered community. This attempt came to an end in the aftermath of the 1936 Arab riots, making it impossible for Jewish residents to live there for the next 32 years. Hebron was at long last liberated by the Israel Defense Forces in the Six-Day War of 1967.

to read the entire article go to:

www.jdl.org/israel/hebron_facts.shtml

In another article it says: * Hebron has been a Jewish city since it was the first capital of the Jewish state under King David nearly 3,000 years ago.

* Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs is the revered burial site of the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the biblical matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah.

* There has been a Jewish community in Hebron continuously since biblical times, interrupted only by the Arab massacre of 67 Hebron Jews in 1929 and the apartheid-like policy of the Jordanian government that prevented Jews from living in Hebron during the Jordanian occupation of 1949-1967.

Another long article with a detailed description of Hebron's history can be found at: www.hebron.org.il/history.htm

I think this more than amply proves that Hebron was Jewish City, and indeed, one of the oldest of Jewish cities.

As for Nablus, I found many references that support your statement that Nablus was renamed Naples by the crusaders.

I also found this: the Romans founded a new town in AD 71 for veteran legionaries to settle. It was named Flavia Neapolis ( from which the present name derives) in honour of the Emperor Flavius Vespasian. The town acquired all the civil and religious structures of a Graeco- Roman city: agora, hippodrome aqueducts, fountains, colonnaded, streets, temples and, later, basilicas, ramparts and, on the slopes of Mount Ebal, a necropolis. Traces of this Roman city have been excavated recently, and a length of aqueduct survives to the west of the town.

Maybe you missed my point (about Arabs not being able to pronounce Naples). What I meant is that even the name is not authentic Arab but a left-over name from a previous conqueror--now long gone. If Nablus were an Arabic city, wouldn't it have an Arabic name? There is so little that is authentic about Arab ownership of Israel historically or currently. In order to even have a history, its necessary to make it up.