Samaritans Number Less Than 1,000. Here's How Their Tradition Survives In Israel

(ANALYSIS) This week, Samaritans are celebrating Sukkot — one month after Jews. The ranks of the once mighty Samaritan people reached 3 million in biblical times but were reduced by persecution and apostasy to 146 by 1918. Today they number 814: Half live on a mountaintop in the West Bank, and half live along coastal plains in Israel.

News, Israel, Middle EastGil ZoharOctober 26, 2021Gil Zohar, Primary Feature, Samaritans, samaria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, West Bank, sukkot, sukkah, samaritan sukkot, Secondary FeatureComment

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