Rare photos of Palestinian farmers in the ’70s

The director of the field school in the settlement of Kfar Etzion, just south of Jerusalem, posts a series of rare photographs snapped by guides from the field school throughout the West Bank during the 1970s.

Evoking the Book of Ruth, which will be read in synagogues during the festival of Shavuot this weekend, Yaron Rosenthal writes in his Facebook post that “the return to the Land of Judea after the Six Day War opened up before the Israeli public… a window into an authentic farming culture that was preserved among the Arabs of the area.”

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רות ובועז מתעוררים לחיים בשדות גוש עציוןתמונות נדירות שצולמו על ידי מדריכי בית ספר שדה כפר עציון בשנות ה-70 במרחבי ארץ…

Posted by ‎ירון רוזנטל‎ on Thursday, May 21, 2015

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