A police van called to the scene of the fire was targeted by an Arab-thrown explosive. No damage was caused.
Several families from the Givat Lehavah (Flame Hill) outpost neighborhood were evacuated for several hours, when the flames reached within feet of the flimsy caravan homes.
Among the families forced to flee was that of Yehuda and Racheli Libman - whose 8-day-old baby Menachem Yair is recovering from his brit milah (ritual circumcision), which took place in the neighborhood synagogue yesterday. (Jewish Law stipulates that circumcision should take place on the 8th day of life, when the baby is one week old.)
Mother Racheli took the event in stride, saying that though no caravans caught fire, "the neighborhood water piping was burnt down, and now we don't have any water. But they're working on fixing it right now."
The new baby is named after Yehuda's father, Rabbi Menachem Libman, one of the leading rabbis and educators in the religious-Zionist yeshiva community, who died last year. The late rabbi was among the first to settle in newly liberated Hevron and Kiryat Arba in 1969, and later lived in Gush Katif, from where he was expelled under the Disengagement Plan last summer. He taught in several different yeshivot as they began, leaving each when he felt that the institution was sufficiently on its own two feet.
One of Yehuda's brothers, Shlomo, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists as he and his friend Har'el Bin-Nun were patrolling Yitzhar eight years ago. Another brother, Eliyahu, an IDF reserves officer and the security officer of Hevron, is one of the few civilians to have received a medal of honor from the Chief of Staff.
Several families from the Givat Lehavah (Flame Hill) outpost neighborhood were evacuated for several hours, when the flames reached within feet of the flimsy caravan homes.
Among the families forced to flee was that of Yehuda and Racheli Libman - whose 8-day-old baby Menachem Yair is recovering from his brit milah (ritual circumcision), which took place in the neighborhood synagogue yesterday. (Jewish Law stipulates that circumcision should take place on the 8th day of life, when the baby is one week old.)
Mother Racheli took the event in stride, saying that though no caravans caught fire, "the neighborhood water piping was burnt down, and now we don't have any water. But they're working on fixing it right now."
The new baby is named after Yehuda's father, Rabbi Menachem Libman, one of the leading rabbis and educators in the religious-Zionist yeshiva community, who died last year. The late rabbi was among the first to settle in newly liberated Hevron and Kiryat Arba in 1969, and later lived in Gush Katif, from where he was expelled under the Disengagement Plan last summer. He taught in several different yeshivot as they began, leaving each when he felt that the institution was sufficiently on its own two feet.
One of Yehuda's brothers, Shlomo, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists as he and his friend Har'el Bin-Nun were patrolling Yitzhar eight years ago. Another brother, Eliyahu, an IDF reserves officer and the security officer of Hevron, is one of the few civilians to have received a medal of honor from the Chief of Staff.