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Thursday, April 21, 2005

 

The soap industries of Nablus and Jaffa provided the most important manufactured export from Palestine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The soap was and is still made from pure olive oil. In 1927 there were 24 factories in Nablus, employing an average of 5 to 6 workers each.

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