In 1968 fervently religious Jews built a tiny Jewish sector inside Hebron, next to the Machpelah Cave. In 1979 the larger Jewish community of Kiryat Arba was built adjacent to the Jewish Quarter of Hebron. To accomplish that, King David desired a more centrally located capital than Hebron. Fast forward nearly a thousand years to the reign of the Jewish king, Herod the Great, who enjoyed his status as a monarch because powerful Rome favored him as a faithful client-king. Remember, King David reigned in both Hebron and Jerusalem, 1,600 years before any Arabs entered the Land of Israel.