Sheikh Musa Hadeib was the head of Mount Hebron farmers' party and a founder of the Zionist-supported Muslim National Associations. He was from the village of Dawaymeh near Hebron.
In October 1929, Musa Hadeib was killed near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem accused of collaborating with the Zionists. His killers were never apprehended, but both his family and the Zionist Executive claimed that the followers of Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of the Supreme Muslim Council, were responsible. His killers, according to Zionist intelligence, were three men dressed as women, from the Maraqa clan of Hebron. Hadeib was the first Arab public figure who was assassinated and took place only two months following the 1929 Palestine riots.