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The 1929 Safed massacre occurred on 29 August 1929 when 18 to 20 Jews were killed by an Arab mob in the city of Safed. The massacre was sparked by false rumours and happened during the 1929 Palestine riots.

The Shaw Commission summarized the attack: p. 65"At about 5.15 p.m. on the 29th of August, Arab mobs attacked the Jewish ghetto in Safed, a re�mote town situated in Upper Galilee nearly 3,000 feet above sea level. Captain Faraday, the Police Officer in.charge at Safed, had for some days feared that an outbreak might occur; a small detachment from the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force had. been sent to Safed and a further detachment of British troops was on the way there when the outbreak occurred. Unfortunately they arrived about two hours after the Arab attack, in the course of which some 45 Jews were killed or wounded, several Jewish houses and shops were set on fire, and there was a repetition of the wanton destruction which had been so prominent a feature of the attack at Hebron."https://aish.com/tzfat-the-city-of-air-and-kabbalah/ https://books.google.ca/books?id=UNvJ1FOwiAwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-1929-arab-riots-464638 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-the-1929-arab-massacres-of-jews-shaped-a-generation-of-israeli-leaders-1.7735630 https://www.safed.co.il/arab-riots-safed-1929.html https://www.safed.co.il/safed-massacre-of-1929.html