the african community has extended families who live in jericho and other areas of the west bank and gaza. the community traces its background through its oldest members to moslem pilgrims who came to palestine from chad and western sudan generations ago.
traditional values and and customs are meeting more modern behaviors within one generation as members of the african palestinian community make new ties to africa and to other africans in israel and palestine.
the african quarter abuts the great wall of the haram al sharif. seventy or eighty families live in apartments on both sides of a major access street that leads to the dome of the rock and the al aqsa mosque. These apartments are made in and around a four
From the shoreline of Caesarea on Israel's north coast, it's just a few fin kicks and a short descent below the sun-glazed surface of the Mediterranean until you reach the sunken ruins of the harbor that made this one of the great cities of antiquity.