One area where Jews and Arabs once had a common interest was in growing food on the irrigated desert (guides point out that every tree you see in Israel was planted within the last 100 years or so). Unskilled workers in need of a job would pick fruit. Some of these jobs have been replaced by machines, but Palestinians coming in from the West Bank and Gaza have been substantially replaced, according to our guide, by Thais who fly in to work for 2-3 years (food can be grown and picked more or less year-round in Israel so it wouldn’t make sense for them to come just for one harvest season).
Thus Israeli is now a pilgrimage site for Buddhists!