Jewish choir singing Xmas carols in Latin at Filipino church in Arab quarter of Jaffa #ChristmasinIsrael
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Due to the recent turmoil between Lebanon and Israel, however, many have been repatriated back to the Philippines, while others have been relocated to Cyprus, a part of the Philippine evacuation plan.
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NOW.: Filipino influences have yet to infiltrate the mainstream in Lebanon. Yet there are far more Filipinos here than from any other Asian country. With an estimated population of 30,000, they make up seven percent of the country’s workforce, according to a 2008 policy paper by the Kanlungan Center Foundation based in the Philippines. There are about eight or ten locales like Ilokandia that cater to the Filipino community in the Hamra area alone, and in Dora there are many more, says store owner Zakaria Al-Jizi, a Lebanese married to a Filipina he met almost 25 years ago. Indeed, a lot of the restaurants that cater to the Filipino community are run by married Filipino/Lebanese couples, and such pairings are rare examples of the two cultures integrating and collaborating, as opposed to co-existing almost entirely separately.
