Sunset On Campus

Summary of the Second Week

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August 27th 2007
Monday night, the 20th, was our first weekly movie night. We watched an Israeli musical from the 1970’s that was a cross between Grease and West Side Story and God knows what else. The movie was about a small village in the desert whose residents didn’t have enough money to maintain their property. The government, refused to help them fund repairs and threatened to destruct their town unless i ... read more

Middle East » Israel » South District » Be'er Sheva

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more