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It is always nice to visit Dalit El Carmel, but recently the Druze women have begun to be exposed and offer a product that is beyond just good food - from ceramic art, through the we work complex which is also a restaurant to spiritual workshops and herbs.

A visit that is female and tourist empowerment

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Ziv Reinstein

Friday, 20 November 2020, 00:10

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Azhar Nasardin Dalit El Carmel (Photo: Ziv Reinstein, Editing: Yardena Abodi Fox)

Quite a few Israelis tend to visit Dalit El Carmel on weekends, enjoying the restaurants and the great Druze-Arab food.

But as quite a few Isfahan and Dalia answers say - Druze is not just a pita with a brick, and they are right.

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Recently, Druze women have begun to go more into public literature and be exposed, offering a product that is beyond just good food, and also includes personal stories, spirituality, art as well as excellent food.

"In recent years, the women in the village and in Ada have been leading the field of tourism with new and varied ventures, and not just in the culinary field," says Safi Maklada, tourism consultant and project manager of "Kfar Bikratam - The Druze and Circassian Experience" at the Galilee Development Authority.

"Their leadership in the field greatly promotes the local economy and employment in general, and especially in the Corona era."

Here is the story of six special women, who each in their own way found their niche and turned it into a small business, which is especially suitable for these days.

A visit that is a female and tourist empowerment for women who have decided to go out and engage in what they love most.

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Dalit El Carmel (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

Druze-style sushi

Ayala Nasraldin has been a librarian for the past 32 at a local school, but in recent years has started baking cakes after studying confectionery.

"From childhood I love to cook," she says, "and I started developing recipes out of trial and error."

Over time she began to hold cooking workshops at her home, which include gourmet food, burger workshops, creams and of course oriental food in the spirit of Arab cuisine like mansaf, vine leaves and stuffed cabbage and even salmon with dairy pistachios.

"I was the first in Dalia to start with the workshops," Nasradine explains, "I started with small children and it has developed for all ages and sectors, and today many families come to me looking for activities for formation and enjoyment."

In these days of corona cuts, each workshop is attended by 10-8 people, no more.

One of Ayala's surprising workshops is actually a sushi making workshop, which is less integrated with oriental cuisine, but in culinary fusion there is probably no such thing as no such thing.

"In the first closure, I canceled the workshops, so companies offered me to sell sushi at home, and it gained momentum," she says.

According to her, in the sushi workshop she teaches how to make rice, vegetables and three types of sushi.

"I even opened a sushi bar at home," she adds, "it's my therapy, and every time I have a workshop I feel butterflies in my stomach."

"From childhood I love to cook."

Ayala Nasraldin at her home (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

From gourmet to sushi.

Cooking workshop at Ayala Nasraldin's home (Photo: Safi Keyboard)

A valley that equates religion with the soul

And from one Nasraldin to another Nasraldin, but without a close family connection.

This time it is Azhar Nasraldin (formerly Mansour), whose esteemed defender has made a big switch to a healthy diet combined with spirituality from the East.

How exactly does the Druze religion fit in with spirituality in the East?

We will check immediately.

But even before that, for 25 years Azhar worked as a kindergarten teacher.

"I opened my own garden when I saw that there were no good enough gardens in the village," she says, "and then I connected to my body and started reading books on nutrition and mind and put it in the garden - no sugars, no sweets, no processed food for children."

After graduating from naturopathy and feeling she had enough tools in the box, she began trying to influence people to make a dietary change.

"I wanted to do something of my own that would connect me to my roots," she explains, "and I make food for any person with a symptom or problem that comes to me."

For example, for athletes she makes soy flour pita that has protein in it.

She turned the kindergarten into a therapy studio about two years ago, where she conducts healthy food workshops, meditations, tai chi and other teachings from the East in which she combines proper nutrition.

"I believe in my values ​​and that's my fuel," she says.

"Our religion does not accept religious women to study, and kept me away from religion when I started studying but I insisted mine have deeper things in my mind and I did not give up and I try to find the equal valley between religion and soul. I believe in my way and even clerics were with me in workshops because it is important to focus In mind and body. "

Suitable nutrition for any problem.

Azhar Nasraldin in her studio which was a kindergarten (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

Delicious and also healthy.

Pastries made by Azhar at her home (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

Creating their lives

Visal Fahraaldin also thought she was going in the health / spiritual direction, and studied complementary medicine, but some videos she saw on YouTube about working with stones - have changed the course of her life, at least for now.

She began studying ceramic sculpture in Haifa, and when she photographed her mother, Hiba, the first urn she created, Hiba fell in love with the work and joined her studies with her daughter.

They moved to study ceramic sculpture in Yokneam and began creating together.

In the grandmother's residence renovated for another business, they began to collect all their works, with no intention of selling.

But a company that passed by and was looking for a gift - asked to purchase one of the works.

"It was the first piece we sold," Wiesel recalls, "and I said to Dad, 'How about we sell the tools in the store?'

"Mandela Studio opened six years ago.

At first, they had a shelf and a half of works, and they also did not like to own an entire store with works spread over a shelf and a half. But over time more and more works were added, and the two even began exhibiting at several events." In my works I look for the connection to the Druze tradition, or to make vintage items "says Hiba. During the Corona period she began to host women's circles for handicrafts, such as embroidery, jewelry and other handicrafts from time to time." We are still in search, "explains Wissal," I love the The tribes in Africa, the dress and the color in the clothes and it affects my work. "

These days they are working on a website for the store, but you can also be impressed on their Facebook page and order and also go in and check out their special works.

"I said to Dad, 'How about we sell the tools in the store?'

Wisal Fahraaldin at Mandela Studio (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

The grandmother's residence became a studio.

Some of the works of Hiba Wisal Fahraldin (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

Dalia's we work

Another person who took a place and turned it into a tourism-business venture is Sna Isami, a seamstress by training, who studied cookery and confectionery and began working in restaurants and a bakery.

Eventually, she decided to start a business of confectionery and custom cooking.

"Two years ago I started hosting small groups at home, but there was no big place," she recalls.

But when her mother-in-law died about a year and a half ago, she opened Rose in his home, named after her mother-in-law Rose.

At first she started baking and cooking workshops for women, and over time she started holding formation meetings for religious Druze women, cultural meetings and the place became a kind of place where meetings and work meetings are held, and in fact Dalia's first we work.

Along the way she also created a great menu of all kinds of delicacies, so you can get to work and not have to go out to a restaurant to eat - she has already built no place.

And if you thought that between her cooking you would find the delicacies of Druze cuisine?

So not really.

Precisely shakes, bagel toast, pastas and other Italian dishes, as well as Asian stir-fries and salads.

And of course full breakfasts and more at discounted prices.

When was the last time you ate a

breakfast

for NIS 69?

The house of the late Hama became a work and catering complex. Sana Isami in Rose (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

Meetings, birthdays and work meetings.

The business room in Rose (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

The secrets of the soap

In the days when pharma stores became popular and sell everything, it is pleasant to enter a store that sells almost exclusively one product - soap.

And not such a pompous or luxury brand liquid soap, but a soap of yesteryear, made like yesteryear and from materials of yesteryear, i.e. from olive oil.

Inas Zeiden and her husband opened "Seri and Sura Soap" two years ago - a kind of small house for soaps named after their children.

The idea of ​​making soap has been with us since 2012, "says Inas," because we wanted to return to the heritage and to maintain our body health. "They asked the elders in the village how to make the old soap and what is the secret to making good soap, and after learning they started making milk from milk Goats, bay leaves, cloves, turmeric and recently also a soap with shea butter.

Inas says that the most popular soap in the store is goat milk soap, shea and turmeric and honey soap. One of the special soaps is goat milk soap with avocado and also soap with lip scrub. The soap. But in the store you will also find a variety of herbs for sale, for example "Kaf El Lamam" which is used for kidney stones or kidney infections, and also strawberry leaves for diabetes that are brewed into tea. The most expensive soap will cost you 30 shekels. The cheapest - only 10 shekels. Soap? Inas and her husband also hold soap making workshops.Sri

Specialize exclusively in soaps.

Inas Zeiden in her store (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

From olive oil to turmeric and goat milk.

The soaps in "Seri and Sura Soap" (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

The secret decision

Every self-respecting Druze knows the secrets of plants, probably in the Carmel area where Dalia is located.

But Puta and Moan Halabi from the Jasmine Center named after the plant, took the issue one step further.

If you love plants, herbs, infusions and just scents and healthy things - you must come here.

"From childhood we lived in nature and my mother used to cure people from diseases with herbs," explains Puta, her connection to the plants she learned from her and her grandmother.

The center has existed for four years, but even before that she and her husband had stalls in 42 places in the country, such as malls selling Druze and vegetarian food, "because my mother taught me about the plants and their virtues," she says.

Puta explains that in the 1950s there was no HMO in the village, and people treated themselves with the help of herbs.

"In the 1970s, there was a veterinarian, 'Abu Ilan' - a Jew who treated the residents," the couple jokes.

Beyond a store where a wide variety of infusions and herbs are good to add to salads, smoothies or other foods, the couple holds various workshops, for example of making kahal, which is made from kahal stone that originated in Egypt.

"We put blue in the eyes of a two-day-old baby who will not have glasses," explains Puta.

In addition, they hold food workshops that deal with herbal sambusak, spinach and hyssop, brick balls in olive oil, vine leaves and other dishes from the Druze cuisine.

But Puta also gives lectures on her story, on Dalia, on the women here and the Druze heritage.

It turns out that her father opened the first tourist shop in the village as early as 1956, which was a grocery store where handicrafts were sold.

But one thing stands out above all the products, they say, and that is the recommended "home product" - a health infusion.

"It helps people to be healthy, because it has seven types of plants that we do not discover," says Moin. "We came to it after field work and questions we asked elders, because not every plant is suitable to be with the other and in this decision everyone complements the others."

However, Mo'in agreed to reveal to us two of the seven components: the first is Moringa, "which is the most important and has all the necessary vitamins. The second is a helper that regulates blood circulation," he says.

"Decided to let the body protect itself from all diseases, including the corona, and it is better to drink half a liter a day.

Learned from mom and grandma the secrets of plants.

Puta Halabi at the Jasmine Center (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)

You can walk around it for hours.

The store in the Jasmine Center (Photo: Safi Keyboard)

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