This section about the Galilee and Northern Israel reflects the fact that I moved over here a short while ago and am in love with the landscape, the people, the variety, the cuisine, and everything else. It is a unique product of a very special and long history, as well as interesting geology, topography, wild life and flora. It has an amalgam of various communities, all the way from experimental spiritual or ideological villages, to kibbutzim, moshavim, and all the way to traditional or modern Druse, Christian, Muslim villages and towns. Even the unique group of Circassians has settlements here. There is a huge amount of archeology, from prehistory to Biblical and up, and holy sites for all religions and creeds.
Druze Women – Juggling Tradition and Moderna
Highly educated, capable, motivated, artistic and devout, religious Druze women are still not allowed to drive. Hopefully, this will change soon.
Yarka and Julis, Two Quaint Galilean Druze Villages
Strolling through old Yarka reveals inner gardened courts, pleasant people, women and men’s street art, and the blessed Ali Fares’s nukta.
Druze Cemeteries – State, Religion, and the Soul
Visit to a Druze military cemetery, civil “cemetery” and tombs of Sheikh Amin Tarif and daughter in Julis. Normally, no civil graves or mourning as Druze reincarnate.
Druze Secret Religion – For the Chosen Few
Druze religion is secretive, known only to those who choose a strict and demanding religious life. Honorability, clean tongue and conduct are required. Lay people are bound by less rules, but must marry within the community.
Druze Crisis in Syria – Horrors, Analysis, and What Next?
July 13th 2024 was the Druze day of indescribable horrors, their “October 7th” so to speak. I bring analysis from some intelligent journalists and questions about the future.
Druze – Israel’s Mountain Allies and Tactics of Survival
Druze are a tiny religious minority in Israel and the world, yet they are fearless warriors, who over years of persecution have developed effective tactics of survival. Druze are indispensable to the Israeli army, and well integrated into society.
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