Diversity in Israel: Samaritan Life Today | Insights: Israel & the Middle East

[@MrMatishoshani]

This was such an interesting episode to create. The Samaritan people are much more than what we expected. they were welcoming, kind, and carried themselves with a huge pride in their identity..

[@stephennicolay1940]

A fantastic programme...well done!

[@Israel.with.David.Haivri]

It was a pleasure and honor to participate in this short documentary on the Samaritans. Their heritage and history are so interesting and inspiring. My guests are always amazed to learn that descendants of the Biblical Samaritan Israelites exist today and continue to observe their anceint faith and traditions on Mount Gerezim in the Heartland of Israel.

[@Israel_Advocacy]

Abood Cohen and David HaIvri are two incredible Israelites 🥰 Great mini-documentary 👍

[@jennypalmer331]

This was so interesting and hear about their history. May God hold all people in his hands and pray for peace in Israel, Samaria etc

[@stephaniehenderson6631]

Fascinating to see modern Samaritan people speaking about their life and to hear the tour guide too. I learned a lot. Thank you.

[@TBNIsrael]

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[@stephennicolay1940]

The clearest programme I have yet seen regarding the Shomrinim. It helps being in English too!

[@luckyphikela4506]

Wow! what a wonderful documentary that track back the sons of Jacob whom have survived many wars but here even todate and will never be consumed, love from South Africa.

[@aaronlopez3585]

I just finished viewing the program on the Samaritans in Israel. Here in LA a historic landmark is fifty to a hundred years old. In Israel that would be considered new construction. I enjoyed the way the program moved at a good pace yet thorough in it's presentation. May God bless you and prosper you in all your ways. And let's pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.🇮🇱🛐

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[@P.O.T.TPodcast]

Teaching Torah and living by Torah is highly important. The Samaritans knows that and have done this perfectly.

[@lionelsurrut4210]

We need to show more love for our sister nation. 🙏🏻 Love the Samaritans

[@A.M.E-K-87-10]

The consider themselves to be Palestinian not Zionist.

[@sirushti1132]

@@A.M.E-K-87-10 they dont consider themself palestinian or israeli. Them consider themself israelites or children of Israel. but not israeli ( as in state of israel)

[@A.M.E-K-87-10]

@@sirushti1132 not children of Israel because the man said his tribe are Samaritan who had wars with them so called children of Israel

[@angelvpineda8148]

I I'm so glad that God has preserved another branch of Jacob even though it's small but as preserved it God bless the Samaritans!

[@joselimjoco3367]

You have featured the Samaritans, Maronite Christians. I hope you also feature the Circassian community of Israel in the Galilee and the Alawites in the beautiful town of Ghajjar in the north.

[@ronnestman4696]

It’s such a beautiful thing Mati how you highlight all the people of faith in the holy land. Really appreciate you my friend.

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[@natadodo1564]

Very interesting. I can’t believe they survived the persecution under Romans and then under Muslims. I wish I could meet them one day when I visit Israel.

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[@mohamedjihadbayali6704]

Muslims didn't persecuted Samaritans because they know they are the real israelites and they are native to the land.

[@robertocabuyoc2819]

A native of Samaria (inhabitants) who preserve the Ancient belief of their Forefathers.A generous helping those in time of distress.

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[@zalmykinn]

Jews have also never left the land.

[@davidtrak2679]

True. Most did, not all

[@zalmykinn]

@@davidtrak2679 True

[@tzvi7989]

Was only the educated ones and people with power. The Romans kept the peasants there as they knew they werent gonna be a threat to their occupation

[@tzvi7989]

@david trak

[@zalmykinn]

@@tzvi7989 not true at all the great Torah scholars of the Mishna and Talmud were allowed to stay in the land.

[@brunnomenezesadv]

Muito bom o documentário: tanto pelo enredo, quanto pela técnica! Parabéns! No capítulo 4 do livro escrito por João, discípulo de Yeshua, temos o registro da visita que Yeshua fez a Samaria: uma visita que resultou em perdão e reconciliação do povo com Adonai.

[@madmonkee6757]

I want to learn more about the Samaritans, but it's hard to get to their village. I should find their neighborhood in Holon.

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[@JeanMarcelino-qr9ju]

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[@GODis1andOnly]

Abraham's 1st wife Sarah child = Isaac Abraham's 2nd wife Hagar child = Ishmael Abraham's 3rd wife Keturah children = 6Sons 6Sons of Abraham = Brahmin Descendant of Ishmael = Arab 2 Sons of Issac = Jacob + Esau 12 Sons of Jacob = Israelite 12 Tribes of Israelite = Jew & Samaritan PEACE BE UPON ALL

[@emfegmfeg7100]

The Samaritans didn’t disappear - the vast majority converted to Islam. You now know them as Palestinians. Palestinians can be Greek Orthodox, Catholic, Sunni Muslim and Ba’hai. And the small population that of the Samaritans that remain in Nablus work, live a mingle amongst other Palestinian sects. The problem came when Europeans that believe in myths came to expel the natives.

[@zalmykinn]

They were also persecuted their numbers speaks for it self and they make the Sukah indoors because it was dangerous to make it outdoors

[@davidtrak2679]

Sure, every minority in the Arab world has been continually persecuted for centuries now. Look at the Copts, Armenians, Kurds, and most of all any Aramaic speaking, Christian community. That is not to say it did not happen in Europe as well, it did, but it is still happening, in massive numbers.

[@DD-rv8hi]

also it's good to note their population was 1,5M like 500 years ago or so but got massacred when they starting revolting to have independence

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

@@DD-rv8hi 500 yers ago they numbered something like 900.According to the chief Samaritan scholar they totaled in at 1.5 million in the 6th century.

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

@@davidtrak2679 But the hostile Arabs keep on parrotting under video clips like this one their propagandistic fairy tales of an ideal united "Palestine" where everyone lived happily ever after in joy, until the nasty Zionists came along and demolished that status quo. This is how much credit they have for everyone else's intelligence.

[@davidtrak2679]

@@zeeveijonezevijaione9289 Every logical person can see much less Arabs die under "zionist" rule, than under most other Arab regimes, but I guess nobody really cares

[@abbygale4913]

Its good to see something hidden behind the history now come back alive. From nothing to something. There is the 'miracle'?

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[@davidtrak2679]

You got the Rabbinic Judaism view totally wrong, and this is coming from a Jew, not a Samaritan. The Rabbinic view is that Samaritans arrived in Israel following expulsion and forced assimilation by certain kings of Assyria and Babylon, from certain cities in that region. They then converted to Judaism because that was the way of the land, some say because of fear, some say they combined it with idoltary from their original homeland. So according to the Rabbinic view, their arrival in Israel is very precisely dated, and in no case it is "thousands of years later". According to Rabbinic views, they 100% adopted some Jewish customs and beliefs, and this happened thousands of years ago, even if not 3650 years ago. Jewish oral law books such as the Mishnah are filled with references to the Kutim - an exonym of the Samaritans - and their close, but complicated relations with the Jews. An entire tractate about them deals with different Halakhic laws regarding them, customs and way of conduct mirroring much warmer relations between Jews and Kutim even back then, than with other Gentiles of the land of Israel. In earlier times the relations were politically tense, sometimes escalating. But the relationship back then has been very similar to what it is today - complicated, but respectful and very much intertwined one with the other.

[@AbrahamsBridges]

It’s very complicated. Unfortunately, the one with the most power usually gets his side heard regardless if it’s truth or not. Torah tells us not to side with the masses. The prophets also tell us that we’ve inherited lies. Makes me wonder what those lies are. Lying pen of the scribes.

[@davidtrak2679]

@@AbrahamsBridges May be, I'm just for all sides to be heard like they were meant to. No use in only making the minority side heard, or vice versa. Not sure where you bring that from, not listening to the masses and the lies. In any case it's never that simple. For example, the Samaritan Torah shows clear signs of later editing, like Shechem and Gerizim mentioned in many places, some of the almost nonsensical or superflous. Some show clear dumbing down of the texts to solve conundrums. But in the same vein, it's written in a subset of a more ancient script, and it can represent older variants of the text. It's never simple, and almost never exactly as one side tells it or the other

[@DD-rv8hi]

though there's true in what you said it's also true most of them descents from the Israelites, DNA test has shown that they got mixed (in low scales btw) with the Assyrians but they remain at most ethnically Israelites

[@davidtrak2679]

@@DD-rv8hi It depends on what you define as Israelites. In any case I only wanted to point out the accurate views, their origin is disputed, but it's very clear they're there for a very long time now

[@AbrahamsBridges]

@@DD-rv8hi To me, it doesn’t really matter what you’re genetics are. If you’re committed to keeping the covenant, the Creator shows no partiality. If Jews choose not to embrace Samaritans or vice versa, then nothing has changed. We are in a battle that’s thousands of years old, and it’s very sad! Two separate kingdoms need to admit faults, forgive, and embrace each other as brothers.

[@Nomad1992]

A lot of the Israelites fled to Judah after the conquest of the Neo-Assyrians, so most Jews are probably a mix of Judahites and Israelites.

[@firstlast1357]

The tribe of Dan are Israeli … today’s Judaism is rabbinical Judaism, the rabbis are objecting to share the power. It’s time to rebuild the temple and return to our true Hebrew Israeli roots. Also beware of getting contaminated by Hindus, Christian, … etc. Modern pagan influences .. am israel chai.!

[@meenawerda7521]

Most modern Jews have nothing to do with Hebrews. They are descendants of European converts to Judaism. The only exceptions being Syrian/Lebanese/Palestinian Jews.

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

You're quite correct, Dan. Jews are a mixture of Southern Israelites and Northern Israelites. And it's a pity that this site isn't showing me the 2 comments already posted beneath your comment.

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

@@meenawerda7521 The DNA studies (unlike the faux-scientific garbage produced by your beloved Eran Elhak et al) of the past ~25 years totally disprove the Nazoid tripe you've spouted. There's a NYT report of one of those studies, easily found via Google searches, showing that 90% of the world's Jews trace back to the ancient Israelites and Levant. You're just a white European who's dismayed that s/he can't be considered a Jew, or Israelite, or Hebrew.

[@veronicaharwick9013]

Deuteronomy 11:29 29 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

[@limrosemary8536]

We first know of Samaritan thru the story of the Samaritan woman ( John 3) .., Now go interview at least one ..,

[@ibrahimsuleiman8473]

What happened to the 1million of them, were did they vanished to? Are the Palestinians an Arabnized version?

[@nuttcase1uk]

They can't hear you and if they do then are not listening, Save your energy elsewhere.

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

Some assimilated among gentiles outside of Israel. Others were massacred and murdered in wars and persecutions. Still others converted to Christinsanity and Pisslam. And yes, many of the Palis in greater Shekhem a.k.a. Nablus and the Pali Xtians descend from Samaritans.

[@yosephklemensmau8513]

I believe that Israel will not offer Judea and Samaria to Arab Palestines.

[@jordz6795]

Not enough diversity

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[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

Go live in southern Tel Aviv if you want it.

[@ZenatiOmar]

Samaritans are Natives and you not Go find your father in Poland Jacob is not your Father

[@Nomad1992]

A lot of the Israelites fled to Judah after the conquest of the Neo-Assyrians, so most Jews are probably a mix of Judahites and Israelites.

[@DD-rv8hi]

Judahites and Israelites are both the same people

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

Many Xtians and people influenced by them will keep on adhering to the nonsense that the Jews are from the Judah tribe, while "the Israelites" descend from the other 11 tribes. We know much better -- In the Second Temple era, those Israelites who accepted the Prophets & Writings and acknowledged Jerusalem's status as the Chosen Place -- regardless of tribal affiliation and place of residence throughout the Land of Israel -- came to be known as "Jews", whereas a minority of Israelites, mainly in Samaria, adopted the belief that Mt. Gerizim is the Chosen Place and came to be known as "Samaritans", while rejecting the Prophets & Writings.