Thursday, May 29, 2008

Nizzana Border

The Nitzana Border is an international border crossing between Al Uja, Egypt and Nizzana, Israel which was opened for the first time in 1982. Today the terminal handles only commercial trade between the two nations. If you could enlarge the photographs below you can see several columns erected on the sides of the road. This is the Path of Peace, a 3-kilometer long stretch of 3-meter-high sandstone columns where the word “Shalom” (the Hebrew word for Peace) is engraved at the bottom and top of each column in one of the 100 languages thought to be spoken by the peoples who crossed this border over a thousand years.

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