(Toronto Star-Canada) Rick Westhead - Gamila, a Druze woman from Peki'in in the Galilee, has become her community's best-known and richest resident, launching a company that now does more than $50 million in annual sales. Using knowledge she learned from her father of herbs and roots, she began a business making an olive oil-based soap. With her son Fwad Hiar, Gamila opened a factory which produces 1 million bars a year under the brand name "Gamila Secret." Gamila's daughter was the first woman in the town to get her driver's license and her granddaughter is completing her doctorate in feminist studies at Haifa University.
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