The story
The yeshiva is housed in Beit Romano, a historic multi-story complex built in 1881 by Chaim Yisrael Romano, a wealthy Jewish merchant from Constantinople. The building originally served as a residence and a hospitality center for Jewish pilgrims visiting Hebron. During the British Mandate period, the complex was seized by the authorities and utilized as a police station and court.
The modern establishment of the yeshiva was directly catalyzed by the May 1980 Hebron terrorist attack, in which Palestinian militants ambushed and killed six Jewish students near the nearby Beit Hadassah building. In response to the attack, and as part of the initiative to revitalize the historic Jewish presence in Hebron, Rabbi Moshe Bleicher founded Yeshivat Shavei Hevron in 1982 within the reclaimed Beit Romano complex.
From Wikipedia’s article on Yeshivat Shavei Hevron, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4