Meet the real good Samaritans living on a holy mountain
Known to many because of the parable of the Good Samaritan told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, the Samaritans are perhaps the smallest religious group in the world.
NEWSRAEL Editor 07.10.2022
They identify themselves as descendants of the Israelite tribes of Efraim and Menashe. While most of those tribes were exiled by the Assyrians in 722 BCE, the Samaritans have been here continuously for some 127 generations. They hope that Samaritans might serve as a bridge between Jews and Arabs, having a foothold in both worlds while maintaining their neutrality.
Since 1995, the Samaritans hold three identity cards: Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian. They are the only group to do so.
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