Featured Member:  Khader Khair

Khader Khair started his workshop in the late eighties after his studies in medical school were disrupted by the first intifada. As a schoolboy he had worked in his uncle’s workshop on weekends and during holidays, and that is where he had learned the trade.

Before becoming a carver, he had been studying medicine, but his medical school career was disrupted after two years when universities closed during the first intifada. This forced him to look for a different way of making his living. He started his own workshop and he is now working together with his brother Michael and there are seven employees. Beside that there are also nine families working for this workshop. These families are involved in gluing the small olive wood squares to assemble crosses.  Khader's workshop specializes mostly in making these beautiful crosses and crucifixes, available in many varieties of design.