GHAJAR, Israel (JTA) – A group of 40 tourists filed into Khateb Sweets on a recent Sunday afternoon, bringing chatter — and their cash and credit cards — to what had been a quiet cafe in this equally ...
Against all odds, residents of Ghajar are Israeli citizens with Israeli passports and full rights; they speak Hebrew excellently, in addition to their mother tongue Arabic. At the northern cusp of the ...
The intriguing village of Ghajar sits in the foothills of Mount Hermon, sandwiched in no-mans’ land between the Lebanese and the Israeli border lines. Amid the contradictions of one of the world’s ...
Approximately 4,000 people visited Ghajar the day the town opened to the rest of Israel. Another 6,000 visited the following day. A group of 40 tourists filed into Khateb Sweets on a recent Sunday ...