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The olive, cultivated in Palestine since the Canaanites some five thousand years ago, grows on terraces (salassel al-zaytoun) from Acre and Safad to the hills of Nablus, Jerusalem and Hebron. Its harvest, al-jaddad, is a celebrated season every year, the olives picked by hand or with the jaddadeh; the olives were crushed in stone presses, the badd, a pierced stone turned by animals or people, and the paste pressed in wicker baskets, later in iron screw presses from about 1890 on. The oil, stored in jars, was the country’s chief export with soap; “oil builds the house,” the saying goes. Bari, Nabali, Suri and other varieties are grown.
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…they are spread over terraces (salassel al-zaytoun), from Acre and Safad to the central region…”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…the central region, which includes the villages of the Nablus Mountains, Jerusalem, and Hebron.”
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “Age measurements of olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem reveal their existence since the 10th and 11th centuries AD.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…the central region, which includes the villages of the Nablus Mountains, Jerusalem, and Hebron.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…they are spread over terraces (salassel al-zaytoun), from Acre and Safad to the central region…”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…they are spread over terraces (salassel al-zaytoun), from Acre and Safad to the central region…”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…the central region, which includes the villages of the Nablus Mountains, Jerusalem, and Hebron.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…the central region, which includes the villages of the Nablus Mountains, Jerusalem, and Hebron.”
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “…they are spread over terraces (salassel al-zaytoun), from Acre and Safad to the central region…”
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “Age measurements of olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem reveal their existence since the 10th and 11th centuries AD.”