Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

December 10, 2018

Celebrating Hanukkah, and Christmas, at a Druze Department Store Near Nazareth

Modeling intercommunal harmony near the birthplace of Jesus.

Israel’s two Merkaza department stores boast an enormous selection of goods, competitive prices, and attentive customer service inspired, according to a spokesman, by the Druze ethic of hospitality instilled by Mounhal Hamoud and his son, the Druze who own and operate the stores. To Dore Feith, Merkaza represents something more profound than an example of economic vitality in the Jewish state:

SaveGift