December 24th (christmas eve) Nisim took me to Nazareth, a mainly Arab-Christian town. Nazareth is built around the Church of the Annunciation, where (according to Wikipedia) the Archangel Gabriel announced the future birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary. Nazareth is therefore a central meeting point for a huge number of Christians during Christmas (okay, to be fair: there was also quite a few Americans involved...). Anyways, as you might imagine, people in the Middle East celebrate Christmas very different than what I now from Germany, where the Family sits happily around the tree singing Christmas songs and people are rarely found outside. No, Christmas in Nazareth is LOUD and CROWDED and CRAZY. Imagine a carnival parade with X-mas themes, LOUD music from speakers all over ("Who knows what language they are singing in, the bass is killing the words!") and millions of kids dressed up in Santa costumes, ringing huge bells in your ears. The parade was finished with the release of hundreds of red and green balloons into the sky. Christmas-fellings anyone?
Here, see for yourself:
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