Taybeh
Taybeh (Arabic الطيبه aṭ - Tayyiba ) is a village in the Palestinian territories. It has about 2,100 inhabitants and is located about 10 kilometers east of Ramallah. The village, which is considered the biblical Ephraim, is now the only place almost entirely Christian in the Holy Land.
Economy
Taybeh is best known for his 1995 founded by the Christian Palestinian Nadim Khouri brewery that produces only one in the Middle East according to the Bavarian Purity Law. Targeted support measures of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Hanns- Seidel -Stiftung (eg when aligning the first Oktoberfest in Palestine) provide valuable impetus for the development of the company, which is one of the few glimmers of hope in since the beginning of the second Intifada moribund Palestinian economy. As with the Munich model finds the Taybeher Oktoberfest in September, but in deference to Ramadan and Yom Kippur. The brewery produced especially for the Arab- Muslim market and non-alcoholic beer.
Riots in 2005
On 4 September 2005 the town victim of retaliation, because supposedly a Christian had impregnated a married Muslim woman from the neighboring village of Taybeh. The Muslim neighbors committed against the pregnant woman an honor killing and burning to restore honor in Taybeh village fourteen houses down, with seventy people were left homeless. Also, the only brewery in the Palestinian territories was almost burned in the incident ..
Associated with Taybeh people
- Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), French priest and monk who spent 1889 and 1898 a few days in Taybeh.