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(IsraelNN.com) Outsourcing has hit the kippah-crocheting industry, as well. Jews who don knitted-kippot (skullcaps) might be unaware that Arab women from Deir Abu Meshal, near Ramallah, are responsible for their creation. Almost all women from the village of 3,000 residents profit from providing kippot to Jews. Some have been making the religious gear for 40 years. The women could make about five kippot each day. They earn about 12 shekels ($3) per knitted kippah.

“We make qors (Arabic for ‘disc’) while having a gossip,” Umm Ali told the Reuters news agency. “We meet each other and we make money at the same time,” added the mother of three children who is a sole provider of her family.