Dragonslayer On the Israeli Border

Jerusalem, 10 July, 2025 (TPS-IL) -- A statue of St. George slaying a dragon in the Israeli Alawite village of Ghajar on July 9, 2025. Although Israel captured the village from Syria in 1967, United Nations cartographers drew the Israel-Lebanon border through the village in 2000. Alawites are a branch of Shi’ite Islam whose beliefs include elements of Christianity. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS-IL