Everyday Life in Jerusalem's Back Alleys and the Hidden Side of the World

One side of a building has completely collapsed, and damage from missile fragments is severe enough to crack nearby buildings. Even buildings not directly hit are damaged as fragments scatter, and this kind of everyday crisis repeats in Jerusalem.

Soldiers and reservists always carry firearms in daily life. Even soldiers heading out on leave must travel with live-ammunition weapons, and that is the reality here.

Tickets can be booked from 6 p.m. on October 12. This "Watching History" talk concert will be held on November 28 at the Sohyang Theater Woori Bank Hall in Busan, in two performances at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets are available from 6 p.m. on October 12.

The concert runs in two sessions, at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., and tickets open at 6 p.m. on October 12.

Only ten years ago, remote tribes that were symbols of poison arrows and primitive life are now commonly seen using mobile phones.

Even in the Amazon's remote areas, satellite internet such as Starlink has connected, and the importance of information connectivity is emerging beyond the old idea of remote exploration.

Its residents, in a place with annual rainfall of up to 11 meters, live self-sufficiently, cut off from the outside world.

The village connects to the outside through 3,500 steps, and in an isolated environment where even mobile phones have no signal, residents continue a self-sufficient life.

This extreme climate and geography act as major factors shaping the villagers' way of life.

The disaster sites have a limestone-rich geology, which causes mud to harden like cement when it dries after floods.

An area that once sank deeply underfoot begins to harden, so the terrain undergoes unexpected changes.

Under a status quo rule set in 1852 by Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire, the space is divided into zones, and the key to the main gate is held by the Muslim Joudeh and Nuseibeh families.

Under the 'status quo' rule set by Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire in 1852, each denomination's zone is strictly divided to prevent conflict.

The key to the main gate is handled for generations by the Joudeh and Nuseibeh families, Muslim families who remain neutral, maintaining the balance among the denominations.

Inside the church, each denomination exclusively manages areas such as cleaning zones and candle-lighting times, and even minor actions can ignite conflict.

Tension among the denominations is so constant that moving a ladder or a rooftop chair has led to actual brawls.

Repairs to the building require unanimous agreement from the leaders of all six denominations, so construction inside the church is very difficult and often delayed.

Israeli soldiers and reservists commonly carry rifles loaded with live ammunition even on leave, and civilians with gun permits also carry firearms.

This reality shows the high everyday tension hidden behind Jerusalem's name as a holy city.

In this culture, which values communication with ancestors, people believe that failing to hold rituals brings misfortune to the family, so they slaughter dozens of livestock for funerals. There is a custom of taking the body out of the coffin, changing its clothes, putting a mask on it, and checking on it as if making a video call.

Instead of portrait photos, they greet their ancestors as if on a video call, slaughter dozens of cattle and pigs for funerals, and believe misfortune will come if rituals are not performed.

The body is covered with grass and honored with rites, and once decomposition is complete and only bones remain, the bones are gathered and reburied.

The main purpose of this method was to boil the body to remove soft tissue, keep only the bones, carry them home, and bury them, preventing the remains from decaying.

This is interpreted as a compassionate concept of offering, different from Zoroastrianism, which regarded contact of a body with the ground as impure and entrusted bodies to vultures to avoid that impurity.

Each time Brazil's government changes, Amazon development policy shifts. A former president openly argued there was no reason to leave the Amazon's resources to a small number of tribes and pushed development such as building highways.

The highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon is accelerating ecosystem destruction, and the environmental crisis has deepened to the point that the Amazon's carbon dioxide concentration now exceeds its oxygen concentration.

The Hadza people lost the land where they once hunted, with more than 90% of their territory taken, and were pushed into the harshest places.

To survive, they are forced into the tragic reality of staging hunting shows for tourists, and a cycle continues in which YouTubers from around the world repeatedly produce this exploitative content and draw more visitors.

Among Arab countries, there are nomads called "Bidoon" who wandered without nationality because they were unable to register as residents when modern states were established.

Without identification, they cannot return once they leave their place of residence, and they suffer institutional discrimination that inevitably pushes them to the bottom of society.

Indigenous societies exposed to alcohol from the fetal stage suffered high suicide rates and genetic defects, leading to the collapse of their communities. Canada's indigenous peoples experienced cultural rupture through forced education and boarding schools, while in Russia, alcohol brought in during conquest destroyed the lives of ethnic minorities. In these regions, where outside forces could not easily conquer them by force, alcohol played a destructive role rivaling an epidemic in cutting off culture.

For Canada's indigenous peoples, forced education and boarding schools caused cultural rupture, and exposure to alcohol from the fetal stage has led to high suicide rates and genetic defects.

Alcoholism acts as a major cause of severe damage to the overall health, culture, and social structure of minority communities.