[AT] Barley Harvest 2

[Dennis Johnson]

Charlie,

The larger Israeli farms use square balers such as the one shown below to harvest the barley. You can see several fields with square bales in larger flat fields.

On the mountain sides where I took the picture with the hand sickles there were no commercial sites with even a lemonade stand. This was next to a Palestine/Israeli border crossing. The Beduoin people really live like that. I have seen similar groups living in the desert in Egypt several years back when visiting oilfield for work. The shepard's nearby were really living in the cave. 

We are doing a bible study/tour studying the places where King David had significant events is his life. This barley picture was within a few miles from a cave he lived in when others were trying to kill him.  The shepard's lived much like David did when he was a boy caring for a flock of sheep.

Several of the larger sites near or in Jerusalem have got very commercialized, but the Beduoin people have not commercialized as far as I know.

Dennis


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