Taybeh
Taybeh ( Arabic الطيبه aṭ-Ṭayyiba ) is a village in the Palestinian Territories . It has about 2100 inhabitants and is about 10 kilometers east of Ramallah . The village, which is considered to be the biblical Ephraim, is today the only almost completely Christian place in the Holy Land .
economy
Taybeh is best known for its brewery , founded in 1994 by the Christian Palestinian Nadim Khouri , which is the only one in the Middle East that brews according to the Bavarian Purity Law . Targeted funding measures by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (e.g. organizing the first Oktoberfest in Palestine) provided valuable impetus for the development of the company, which is one of the few glimmers of hope in the one that has been falling since the beginning of the 2nd Intifada Palestinian economy is. As with the Munich model, the first Taybeher Oktoberfest took place in September 2005, but out of consideration for Ramadan . Since then, the two-day festival has taken place on the first weekend in October. The brewery also produces non-alcoholic beer, especially for the Arab-Muslim market.
Riots in 2005
On September 4, 2005, the village was the victim of retaliation because a Christian from Taybeh allegedly impregnated a married Muslim woman from the neighboring village. The Muslim neighbors committed an honor killing on the pregnant woman and burned fourteen houses to restore village honor in Taybeh, leaving seventy people homeless. The only brewery in the Palestinian Territory almost burned down in the incident.
Persons connected to Taybeh
- Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), French priest and monk, spent a few days in Taybeh in 1889 and 1898.
References
literature
- Immanuel Benzinger : Ephraim 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 16 f.
Web links
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung : Workshop in Taybeh to set up small businesses for local products
- Hanns Seidel Foundation : Political independence is based on economic independence
- haGalil : Between pogrom and Oktoberfest: The Christian village of Taybeh
Footnotes
- ^ Vatican Radio : Middle East: Oktoberfest in the West Bank September 18, 2007
- ↑ http://taybehbeer.com/oktoberfest/
- ↑ Bayernkurier : A Beer for Peace ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) September 15, 2007
- ^ HaGalil : Between Pogrom and Oktoberfest: The Christian Village of Taybeh October 6, 2005
Coordinates: 31 ° 57 ' N , 35 ° 18' E