#StreetOP (Palestine) :: The Challenge of Distributing Beer From Occupied Palestine
When you own a brewery in occupied Palestine you're going to face challenges getting your beer to the restaurants, bars, cafes that wish to sell your product at their establishments. Taybeh Brewing Company's founder ,Nadim Khoury, explains why in the latest episode of StreetOP.
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Made in Palestine 3/4 - Taybeh Beer
Palestinian BEER is being exported to Europe - in spite of the occupation (video in German and Arabic only)
Palästinensisches BIER findet seinen Weg bis nach Europa - trotz militärischer Besatzung
ISRAEL: WEST BANK: FIRST PALESTINIAN OWNED BREWERY
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The Moslem religion forbids the consumption of alcoholic beverages but Christian Arabs on the West Bank are taking advantage of the chance to produce the forbidden drink.
The West Bank is notoriously conservative. Its largely Arab population adhere to the laws of the Koran.
However in Ramallah, the entrepreneuring Khoury brothers, Nadim and David, recently opened the first Palestinian owned and run beer making company in the West Bank.
Taybeh Golden Beer, named after the ancestral town, Taybeh - home to the Khourys and after the Arabic word delicious - recently opened the doors to its new factory.
Three years ago Nadim and David Khoury applied to the Israeli authorities to open the first Palestinian brewery. Permission was granted and the corporation was formed in November '94 with limited distribution beginning in June 1995.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The more peace, the more business we will have - the more freedom that we can have to sell our product. `Taybeh' means delicious and I come from Taybeh, I grew up in Taybeh, I'm from Taybeh. So the name, I like to have it locally because it's a local name. Everybody knows it in Arabic that `taybeh' means delicious. So for a beginning its excellent. I can't keep up with the product. Yesterday I didn't have any beers left so they had to work hard to bottle like you have just seen on the movie.
SUPER CAPTION: Nadim Khoury, Palestinian Beer Maker
The Khoury's are Boston University graduates who also worked together in one of the city's leading beverage retailers before returning to their native Taybeh.
Opening Taybeh Golden Beer is a realization of their dream to return to their own country and help to build its economy by producing world class beer in the birthplace of beer.
The Khouries plan to create a small brewery and eventually expand to offer other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages for markets in Israel and Jordan.
Beer was brewed 5000 years ago in ancient Egypt and transported all over the world. It was also the basis for many medicines in the days of the Pharaohs.
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Oktoberfest in Taybeh
A great success for the Oktoberfest of Taybeh: for two days, the Christian town in the Palestinian Territories was filled with people to taste its particularly tasty beer and to celebrate in the spirit of Munich.
The Israeli Palestinian Beer Challenge
We take 3 rednecks from Canada who know beer and give them a taste-test. They try 5 Israeli beers and one from the West Bank in Palestine.
Which beer wins the taste off? You will be surprised.
Beers tried include IPA brands such as Taybeh, Malka, Shapira, and regular old-tried and commercial beers from Israel such as Goldstar regular, Goldstar 10%! and Maccabee beer.
Have a beer you want the three drunk guys to taste? email us beer@greenprophet.com
Taybeh | Palestinian Oktoberfest - walk through | 3. 10. 2009
Israel - Middle East unrest
T/I: 10:11:19
Israel on Monday relaxed its clampdown on Palestinian Authority territory, lifting the internal closure or virtual siege of Palestinian-ruled towns and cities in the West Bank. The clampdown was imposed after the September 4 suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.
In Ras al-Amoud village, in Arab East Jerusalem, Israeli activists from the left wing movement Peace Now demonstrated against the Jewish settler takeover of two houses in the Arab village. The 15 settlers, who belong to an extreme right-wing organisation, moved into the empty houses in the Palestinian district of Ras al-Amoud, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, on Sunday evening.
Meanwile in Jerusalem Israeli Foreign Affairs minister David Levy met with EU envoy Miguel Angel Moratinos at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in another attempt to break the deadlocked peace process.
SHOWS:
WEST BANK-ARAM CHECKPOINT 15/09
WS cars going in both directions;
MS Israeli soldiers checking papers of cars and civilians;
WEST BANK-RAS al-AMOUD VILLAGE 15/09
VS Peace Now demonstrators in village;
MS Israeli soldiers watching the demonstrators;
VOXPOP, Peace Now demonstrator, (in English), It's very clear that what they're doing here, there is only going to be a great deal of trouble, it's going to mean bloodshed and possibly war.;
EAST JERUSALEM 15/09
VS Israeli soldiers responding and running;
VS Israeli soldiers and Palestinians engaged in rock throwing;
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 15/09
WS exteriors of Foreign Ministry;
VS Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister David Levy and EU envoy Miguel Angel Moratinos shake hands;
CA diplomats;
SOT Miguel Angel Moratinos, EU envoy, (in English), After the visit of Madeline Albright things were quite positive, and trying to build trust and confidence in positive action, taken as provacation, I just heard the statement of the Prime Minister and I work on them, and I think there will be some results on the ground.;
MS Levy and Moratinos shake hands;
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Walking Holiday in Palestine
Whatever you choose to call it -- Palestine; the Palestinian Territories; the Holy Land; the West Bank -- this ancient land remains one of the most fascinating - and controversial - places on the planet. On this 9-day trip - and in contrast to many other trips in the region - our aim is to travel (predominantly on foot) with neither a political nor a religious agenda, but instead with the aim of gaining an insight into the everyday lives and rich culture of the Palestinian people and experiencing a rarely seen side of the Middle East. My name is Marc Leaderman, I run the Group Tours department at Wild Frontiers, and in this video I am going to explain a little more about our 'Wild Walk In Palestine'.
After transferring from Tel Aviv airport, the tour starts in the old city of Nablus with its medieval souk and then travels slowly south as we walk from village to village, staying mainly with local families. From the fertile valleys of ancient Samaria we then skirt along the edge of the Rift valley and head down below sea-level to the shores of the Dead Sea before finally making our way through the Judean desert and on to Bethlehem and finally Jerusalem.
For anyone that enjoys really getting below the surface of a country, this must rank as one of the very best tours that we offer. Not only do we get to walk and talk with a whole range of Palestinians eager to share their stories, but by actually staying in some of their homes we also get the chance to experience a little of their daily life and their wonderful food -- this is not a trip for those looking to lose weight! In addition, for a trip which actually covers only a relatively small distance, the variety of the scenery and the sights is quite astounding. On one day we might find ourselves wandering through olive groves & deserted Roman hilltop towns and then having lunch with some refugees; on another we might pass Byzantine era churches in a desert wadi before having dinner with some Bedouin in their camp.
This is not a major trekking trip, but on most days there'll be at least 3-4 hrs of walking. And in fact many of the paths we take form part of the so-called Abraham Trail which National Geographic in 2014 voted as one of the world's best new walks. But, as with all our wild walks, there is a lot more to this trip just walking, and whether it's eating knafeh (a baked cheese dessert, drenched in syrup) from a street seller in Nablus souk, sampling a beer from Palestine's only micro-brewery in Taybeh or walking the millennia-old streets of Jerusalem's old city, this trip is guaranteed to leave you with many lifelong memories.
Despite having led trips all over the world, this trip remains one of my all-time favourites and I would unreservedly recommend the Wild Walk in Palestine to anyone looking for something which offers a glimpse into this rarely visited...and rarely understood, yet utterly welcoming and eternally fascinating part of the world.
Part 3 - Palestine, Beer & Oktoberfest Under Occupation
PART 3 of Palestine, Beer & Oktoberfest Under Occupation. A documentary by Lara van Raay
Taybe Beer, a story of success and challanges
Taybeh is the only Palestinian Beer so far. It carries the name of the village it is produced in, Taybeh near Ramallah. Although, it is a successful project, yet it faces several local and foreign challenges. This clip has been made for free, IMEMC did not charge anything from Taybeh to do it, however, we thought that people deserve to know that Palestinians like any other nation, plan for their future and try to develope their economy despite of the hardships.
Palestinian says the P.A. needs to learn from Israeli Democracy
December 7, 1997--When interviewed by 60 minutes, Palestinian, Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, who was tortured several times by Palestinian Authority for speaking out against corruption, praised the Israeli Knesset as a model for government: For instance on the Knesset, the parliament, Israelis shouting at each other, criticizing the government; nobody is hurt. That is unusual in the Arab World...That was so amazing to us, because what happens in the Arab World if you dare to criticize the King or the Leader or whatever, publicly, you disappear.
Taybeh Checkpoint Tulkarem at 3am
Taybeh Checkpoint Tulkarem at 3am
Last week I was in Tulkarem for a placement visit, accompanying the work of my colleagues in this area. I enjoyed my time with old and new friends from Dar Qandeel, a Palestinian institute of arts that fosters Palestinian art and heritage, and had a great walk throughout the city during the day.
I also got to work with my colleagues in the Checkpoint. We got at Taybe checkpoint at 3.30 am and at this time there were already about 300 people waiting inside this kind of cage to the opening of the checkpoint at 4.am. Taybe Checkpoint is open only to Palestinians that have permits to work in Israel.
This is a private checkpoint so you can't see people once you go inside -- Palestinians get checked by this various machines and hear the instructions through the sound system inside it -- that is no human interaction going on here, so you really feel as if you were a character of Orwell's book.
People were packed inside in what I call the first cage until 4.15 am when the green light was turned on and they could go through it (that's when the video starts). Then they went to this other cage and waited one by one the other green light so they could pass to get checked inside. I had people telling me that they take longer to open the gates when the EAPPI team is not there. Horrendous experience, I stayed around half an hour looking at this and was seriously disturbed. The sense of cruelty was not bearable for me at 4 am in the morning when the air was so fresh, the stars were glooming and I looked around myself and saw this surreal reality. So I went to the tents of falafel and coffee, had milk with ginger and honey (what a special treat!) and also drank tea and coffee...
The milk, the coffee and tea were delicious!! The bitter reality makes every bit of sweetness sweeter and the looks of support and care mean everything: they are life and love in high dosage!
Palestinian village and tiny Christian enclave celebrates Oktoberfest each year
(6 Oct 2012)
1. Close up of beer being poured into plastic cup, AUDIO: music
2. Barman serving beer, AUDIO: brass band playing
3. Banner reading (English and Arabic) Taybeh Oktoberfest
4. Palestinians and foreign visitors being served beer
5. Foreign visitors drinking beer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) no name given, visitor from South Carolina US:
I am not a big beer drinker, but I come for the ambience, of the festival atmosphere, it's very nice and it's a way of showing my support for the Palestinians.
7. Mid of US visitor raising glass to camera and saying UPSOUND: (English) Cheers to Taybeh Beer Festival 2012. Everyone enjoy and have a wonderful time.
8. Various of Dabke dance group performing on stage
9. Wide of audience
10. Mid of German visitor Jonathan Schindler sitting with friend
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Schindler, tourist from Germany:
My friend Simon told me about this festival here, and he said it's like the Oktoberfest in Germany, and I thought if something here is like in Germany, I will go here.
12. Close up of beer in plastic cup
13. Man drinking beer
STORYLINE:
The tiny Palestinian village of Taybeh in the West Bank welcomed visitors to a surprising celebration on Saturday: its annual beer festival.
Taybeh is the last all-Christian enclave in the Muslim-majority West Bank and has been celebrating a German inspired Oktoberfest since 2005.
It's a must-go event for thousands of Palestinians as well as international visitors and is celebrated with Munich-like enthusiasm.
The village is home to a brewery, the Taybeh Brewing Company, which claims to produce the only Palestinian beer.
Taybeh can mean delicious in Arabic.
The Khoury family, who produce the beer, say it is made from just four basic ingredients; malt, hops, pure water and yeast.
The Taybeh festivities are far away from the Gaza Strip, the other area Palestinians want for their future state, where the Islamic Hamas movement has forbidden alcohol and imposed severe rules for men and women in public.
Palestinian Muslims in the West Bank are also conservative and widely disapprove of alcohol.
Christians make up a minority of several tens of thousands among the more than three (m) million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
In the past few years, seeking to mollify their neighbours, organisers billed the Oktoberfest in Arabic as a two-day sale of traditional produce like olive oil, colourful embroidery and honey - with some beers sold on the side.
Today many Palestinians see it as chance to boost the depressed local economy and many come here to enjoy Palestinian music and dance troupes who performed 'dabke' (a traditional dance) as part of the celebration.
The event inevitably draws comparisons with its better known European counterpart, the Munich beer festival, although some visitors say they prefer Taybeh's unusual atmosphere.
Oktoberfest is a two-week beer festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September and early October.
The event is one of the world's largest festivals, with close to six (m) million visitors attending each year.
The tradition of Oktoberfest has been enthusiastically taken up by several cities across the globe, each staging their own version of the festival.
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West Bank businesses suffer from Israel trade restrictions
Businesses in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory, have long suffered from many costly trade restrictions imposed by Israel under the country's occupation.
Taybeh, the only brewery of beer in the West Bank, and Pharmacare, a pharmaceutical company there that supplies medicine across Europe, are two companies with many grievances about Israel's restrictions.
They say that high taxes and duties and long inspections of goods significantly hinder their ambitions to export and expand.
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Ramallah in the West Bank.
[July 25, 2010]
Beer festival crowds down as Oktoberfest re-locates to hotel
The West Bank's annual beer festival took place at a five-star hotel in Ramallah on Saturday.
Since 2005 the Taybeh Oktoberfest had been held in the Christian village of the same name.
The festival is the brainchild of former mayor David Khoury, who owns the Taybeh brewery.
This festival is one of the most important festivals in Palestine, because it's the new face of Palestine, promoting democracy and bringing normality to Palestine, he said on Saturday.
Christians make up a minority of several tens of thousands among the more than three (m) million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Palestinian Muslims in the West Bank tend to be conservative and disapproving of alcohol, so in recent years the organisers of the Taybeh Oktoberfest have sought to mollify their neighbours by billing the event as a two-day sale of traditional products such as olive oil, colourful embroidery and honey - with some beer sold on the side.
But there have been reports that the new municipal council of Taybeh did not want the festival to be held there any more.
Khoury told the Associated Press that the festival was moved to Ramallah this year after outgrowing Taybeh, but remains hopeful it could return to the village next year.
Despite a smaller turnout than in years gone by, festival-goers appeared to enjoy themselves on Saturday - relaxing by the pool at the five-star Movenpick hotel, listening to a band play traditional German music, and drinking plenty of refreshing beer.
Norwegian tourist Hans Christen said the beer was not as light as he had expected from a warm-climate brew.
It's much more rich in taste, and there's hops taste, it's very good, it's nice, he said.
Oktoberfest is a two-week beer festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September and early October.
The event is one of the world's largest festivals, with close to six (m) million visitors attending each year.
The tradition of Oktoberfest has been enthusiastically taken up by several cities across the globe, each staging their own version of the festival.
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Cuisine of the Palestinian territories | Wikipedia audio article
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Cuisine of the Palestinian territories
00:01:56 1 History
00:04:15 2 Regional cuisines
00:05:41 2.1 Galilee
00:07:19 2.2 West Bank
00:09:10 2.3 Gaza
00:11:11 3 Types of meals
00:11:20 3.1 Rice meals
00:13:48 3.2 Stew meals
00:15:02 3.3 Bread meals
00:17:18 3.4 Mahshi
00:18:42 3.5 Dips and side dishes
00:20:12 3.6 Salads
00:21:50 3.7 Sweets
00:22:59 3.8 Snack foods
00:23:36 4 Meal structure
00:25:27 5 Dining out
00:26:56 6 Beverages
00:27:04 6.1 Soft drinks
00:28:34 6.2 Coffee and tea
00:29:41 6.3 Liquor
00:30:28 7 Holiday cuisine
00:30:50 7.1 Ramadan
00:32:51 7.2 Holiday sweets
00:34:54 8 See also
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Palestinian cuisine consists of foods from or commonly eaten by Palestinians—which includes those living in Palestine, Jordan, refugee camps in nearby countries as well as by the Palestinian diaspora. The cuisine is a diffusion of the cultures of civilizations that settled in the region of Palestine, particularly during and after the Islamic era beginning with the Arab Ummayad conquest, then the eventual Persian-influenced Abbasids and ending with the strong influences of Turkish cuisine, resulting from the coming of the Ottoman Turks. It is similar to other Levantine cuisines, including Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian.
Cooking styles vary by region and each type of cooking style and the ingredients used are generally based on the climate and location of the particular region and on traditions. Rice and variations of kibbee are common in the Galilee. The West Bank engages primarily in heavier meals involving the use of taboon bread, rice and meat and coastal plain inhabitants frequent fish, other seafood, and lentils. The Gaza cuisine is a variation of the Levant cuisine, but is more diverse in seafood and spices. Gaza's inhabitants heavily consume chili peppers too. Meals are usually eaten in the household but dining out has become prominent particularly during parties where light meals like salads, bread dips and skewered meats are served.
The area is also home to many desserts, ranging from those made regularly and those that are commonly reserved for the holidays. Most Palestinian sweets are pastries filled with either sweetened cheeses, dates or various nuts such as almonds, walnuts or pistachios. Beverages could also depend on holidays such as during Ramadan, where carob, tamarind and apricot juices are consumed at sunset. Coffee is consumed throughout the day and liquor is not very prevalent among the population, however, some alcoholic beverages such as arak or beer are consumed by Christians and less conservative Muslims.
Beer festivals aren't usually associated with the West Bank, but that didn't stop people from flocki
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Oktoberfest celebrated in West Bank
CAPTION: Beer festivals aren't usually associated with the West Bank, but that didn't stop people from flocking to the Taybeh Beer Festival, where locals and tourists enjoyed locally-made beer.
(Oct. 1)
Beer festivals aren't usually associated with small Palestinian villages yet for the last seven years foreign tourists and locals have flocked to the annual Taybeh Beer Festival in the West Bank where Oktoberfest is celebrated with Munich-like enthusiasm.
The Christian village of Taybeh is less than 30 minutes by car from Ramallah and since its launch in 2005 the two-day festival is a not-to-be-missed stop for thousands of Palestinians as well as international visitors.
The Taybeh Beer Festival celebrates beer made in this West Bank village by the Khoury family.
Taybeh, which means tasty in Arabic, is the only Palestinian beer, according to the organisers.
The Khoury family say it is made from just four basic ingredients; malt, hops, pure water and yeast, which results in its famously light taste.
The event inevitably draws comparisons with its better known European counterpart, the Munich beer festival although some visitors say they prefer Taybeh's calmer atmosphere.
It's much more peaceful than our Oktoberfest in Munich I have to say, said German tourist Richard Aspeck.
Usually the Oktoberfest in Munich is full of drunk persons, here they have a good time so its quite marvellous.
Thousands of Palestinians usually attend the festival and tourists and a small number of Israelis also join in the celebrations.
After the years of violence between the two communities, the chance to mingle over a beer can be a welcome change for some.
The international flavour extends to the performances with artists from countries like Brazil, Spain and Sri Lanka invited to play at the festival.
Greece-born Maria Khoury is the wife of Taybeh Beer Company co-founder, David Khoury, who is also the mayor of the village.
She has been organising the festival since its launch seven years ago and says she is quite surprised by the number of people it attracts.
She believes that events like these provide some normality to the lives of local people.
We are here having this festival to kind of celebrate life and to say we too as Palestinians we want to be normal people, we want to do normal things.
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Local beer served in West Bank October Fest
MID EAST BEER FESTIVAL
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LENGTH: 3:55
1. Wide of Taybeh village
2. Wide of Taybeh village
3. Taybeh Scouts marching band at the opening of the Taybeh October Fest
4. Member of the Taybeh Scouts holding the Palestinian flag
5. Member of scouts playing drum; a poster of Taybeh beer seen through drum
6. Glasses being filled with beer from draft
7. Glasses of beer on table
8. Wide shot of audience at Taybeh October Fest
9. People sitting at the opening of Taybeh October Fest holding beer glasses
10. Wide of various stalls selling local Taybeh products as part of festival
11. Man playing lute at the opening of the Taybeh October Fest
12. Poster of Taybeh October Fest
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nadim Khoury, Owner of Taybeh Brewing Company:
This is the second October Fest. We call it October Fest because it is a famous name and we made it early out of respect for all religions because Ramadan will start on the 23rd of September, so we decided to make it earlier so that we have more people coming in from the neighbouring villages
14. Men drinking beer at the Festival
15. Nadim Khoury pouring Taybeh beer
16. Two men sitting drinking beer
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Ryan, Finnish tourist visiting festival:
Taybeh beer is really good I think, we do not have it in my home country in Europe so it is exciting to come here and taste a different beer
18. Close of Ryan holding beer glass in hand
19. Two Taybeh residents holding beer glasses
20. Taybeh resident drinking beer
21. Wide of a Taybeh beer stand
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nadim Khoury, Owner of Taybeh Brewing Company:
Before the new elections we always had a plan to make a non-alcoholic beer, but we were very much encouraged to make a non-alcoholic beer after the election of the new government, and it is an opportunity, I liked it, I'm a risk-taker, it is an opportunity and it might do very well.
23. Close up of man holding beer glass in hand
24. Man holding glass of beer in hand
25. Man holding glass of beer and dancing
26. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Edward Massis, Taybeh resident:
As a Christian, I never heard of pressure from Hamas to close the beer factory. Such a thing never happened. If it happened, I might be afraid of Hamas in the future. But Hamas did not attempt to prevent the Christians from drinking beer.
27. Women at stalls where embroideries are on display for sale
28. Various of local products on sale as part of Taybeh October Fest
29. Pan from poster for Taybeh beer to beer stand
30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nadim Khoury, Owner of Taybeh Brewing Company:
I believe I made history in Palestine to make the first Palestinian beer company, which is Taybeh beer.
31. Bottle filling machine at the beer factory
32. Brewing barrels at the beer factory
33. Boxes of beer at the Taybeh brewing factory
34. Boxes of beer at the Taybeh brewing factory with Palestinian flag on top; poster of Taybeh beer in background
SUGGESTED LEAD IN :
Taybeh is an Arabic word meaning both 'delicious' and 'good spirited people'.
The second annual October Fest, held in the West Bank village of Taybeh offered plenty of both.
The festival was created to celebrate a locally brewed beer and once again the festival goers seemed to be in very good spirits as they sampled the product.
STORYLINE:
The town hall in the West Bank village of Taybeh was packed with people celebrating the start of the town's very own version of October Fest.
Outside the hall, people were queueing up to sample Taybeh Beer, the only locally brewed beer.
The weekend beer festival is the second of its kind in Taybeh, a predominantly Christian village with few Muslim residents.
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Palestinian wine | Wikipedia audio article
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Palestinian wine
00:00:55 1 Early period
00:01:41 2 Roman and Byzantine period
00:03:57 3 Islamic and Crusader period
00:05:14 4 Ottoman and British period
00:05:24 4.1 1500s–1700s
00:05:52 4.2 1800s–1900s
00:11:53 5 Modern industry
00:12:41 6 See also
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Palestinian wine has been in production since ancient times. In Palestine, the use of wine was not only an important factor in religious ritual, but also a necessity for social interaction, general dietary consumption and medicinal purposes. During the Byzantine period, large-scale production led to international commerce in the commodity, and Palestinian wine was exported around the Mediterranean region. Production by Christians diminished with the Islamic conquest in the 7th century and was temporarily revived with the settlement of Frankish Christians under the Crusades in the 1100s. Jews continued to cultivate vineyards in the late 15th century into the Ottoman period. The first modern wineries were established by German settlers at Sarona (a neighborhood of Tel Aviv in Israel) in 1874/5 and by Jews at Rishon LeZion (also in Israel) in 1882.
DVV International - Potentials Movie | فيلم مشروع طاقات
This video is to honor and mark the contributions and efforts by our female partners on International Women's Day, under Potentials project in Ramallah.
The main objective of the project is to contribute to the reduction of poverty and unemployment by activating the framework of cooperation between the educational, private and economical sectors. Within this three year project, 15 organizations from the targeted areas were supported to build their capacity in management, curricula development, new methods of teaching and networking enabling them to provide professional quality trainings for their beneficiaries that match the needs of local labor market and enhance their opportunity to enter the employment marketplace.
الهدف الرئيسي لمشروع طاقات هو المساهمة في الحد من الفقر والبطالة من خلال تفعيل إطار التعاون بين القطاعات التعليمية والخاصة والاقتصادية. ومن خلال هذا المشروع والذي مدته ثلاث سنوات تم دعم 15 مؤسسة من المناطق المستهدفة لبناء قدراتها في الإدارة وتطوير المناهج وأساليب التدريس والتواصل لتمكينهم من تقديم دورات تدريبية عالية الجودة للمستفيدين منها والتي تتطابق مع احتياجات سوق العمل المحلية وتعزز فرصهم لدخول سوق العمل.