Khader Grape Festival

The Khader Grape Festival is a grape festival held annually on September in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem. It was established by the town municipality with the purpose to promote the town's primary crop — the grape. The festival is characterized by exhibitions of grapes and homemade grape products such as "dibs" (molasses made from grapes). Other exhibitions include embroidery and knitting, a local heritage exhibition of mills, grinders, and harvest tools. Several cultural events, such as poetry recitals, folk songs and dabke are held at the festival. [ [http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:AshfCfD87zgJ:www.bethlehem.ps/cultural_sites/festivals/grape.php+Grape+Festival+al-Khader&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a The Grape Festival] Centre for Cultural Heritage and Preservation.] Several other Palestinian villages hold agricultural festivals for their main crop, such as Jifna and its apricot festival and Artas and lettuce.

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*Feast of Saint George