Waasem, a resident of the Lower Galilee village of Sha’ab, is the cardinal example of the proverb ‘one man’s rubbish in another man’s treasure’ and those unwanted metal items could well end up as the central piece of a sculpture in the Sha’ab Ecological Museum.

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