“In the modern world, there is less and less space for many professions and crafts. Hundreds of different positions turned out to be unnecessary in the twenty-first century: people were replaced by technology and computers. Where in a modern city today can you find a candle maker or a lamplighter, in which office are there still typists? there is no longer a cab driver on the street, no more going into a glass blower's or cooper's shop.
The brightest moment of traveling in Palestine: there you can still find things that other countries have long lost the habit of. Progress is coming there too, production and small factories are closing.
I visited the Hebron glassblowers, observed the work of the last arafat factory and found out who actually fired the pots."