Samra: It’s been a peaceful day. No settlers. No soldiers. Quiet grazing, near the house.
It’s been a peaceful day. No settlers. No soldiers. Quiet grazing, near the house.
In the morning we make order at home. Fold, order, clean, eat a delicious meal.
We go out to graze the two flocks with the shepherds. Hear their stories. Deal with the issue of a sheep’s intelligence. Apparently, it has especially bad public relations. Actually, chargpt tells us it is not stupid at all. Many are stupider. It seems that in nature, intelligence is judged by the animal’s survival skills, not the number of cells in its brain.
It recognizes the faces of at least 50 people or other sheep for at least two years. It has a genial survival strategy. For survival, it lives in flocks and not alone in nature. The flock functions as a single large organism. With hundreds of eyes and ears. When a member recognizes danger and runs away, all follow. We witness this with every sound of an ATV on the ground.
We climb up to the water holes and caves and, apparently, they are numerous. Shepherds say that people used to live in the caves in earlier times.
Children expect us in the community center (the famous Jujube tree). They ask why we come only once a week and not every day. We always have games and things that make time pass with fun.
It’s a good lunch. No one there to replace us so we stay until around 5 p.m.
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Jordan Valley
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Jordan Valley The Jordan Valley is the eastern strip of the West Bank. Its area consists of almost a third of the West Bank area. About 10,000 settlers live there, about 65,000 Palestinian residents in the villages and towns. In addition, about 15,000 are scattered in small shepherd communities. These communities are living in severe distress because of two types of harassment: the military declaring some of their living areas, as fire zones, evicting them for long hours from their residence to the scorching heat of the summer and the bitter cold of the winter. The other type is abuse by rioters who cling to the grazing areas of the shepherd communities, and the declared fire areas (without being deported). The many groundwaters in the Jordan Valley belong to Mekorot and are not available to Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley. The Palestinians bring water to their needs in high-cost followers.Bosmat HetzroniApr-16-2026Samra. Water Cistern
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