RIDING ISRAEL: Ghajar

This post opens a series of posts which are different than the posts I usually write here.

SInce I retired, some months ago, I have began some periodical rides to different places in Israel, with the main purpose of recording in video the rides and the places which I visit.

The post today is about the village called Ghajar, or Rhadjar. This is an alawite village in the very north of Israel, in the border with Lebanon.

Rhadjar is very near on the Hatzbani River, on the border between Lebanon and the Israel. The name of the village means "gypsy" in Arabic. As of 2023, it had a population of 2,700, most of whom consider themselves Syrian but have Israeli ID cards.The Blue Line divides Ghajar between Lebanon and the Golan Heights.

The village made itself known as the village of peace, and although being divided between Lebanon and Israel, there is some level of cooperation between its two sides, including people from the Lebanese side that learn at Israeli universities. Inside the village they have the Peace Park, with monuments for the three main religions, Christianism, Jewish and Islam.

During the trip we visited Ghajar and also went to eat luch at the Druse village of Mas'ade.

You can see the movie of the trip embedded below.