Driving north yesterday I saw my first flock of storks for the season. A little early for spring I thought to myself, but early and late in relation to seasons in the last decade or so, are terms in flux. The storks were acting a little crazy – whirling around on invisible thermals, that...
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In an unprecedented decision the mayor of Beersheba, Rubik Danilovich decided that even though the Israel Defense Forces, the Home Front Command, Southern Command and everybody else had declared the latest shelling from the Gaza Strip over, he will not open the schools in his city. And why is that? Because two Grad rockets...
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The first time I saw Masada was in the late 1950s, when I drove with my parents in my mother’s UN-owned jeep to Ein Gedi. The only way down to the Dead Sea area at the time, was via the old road to Eilat, a dirt road that descended into the Arava Valley via...
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Yehuda Avni came to the Galilee in the 1950s, from his native Chicago. His dream was to build a horse-ranch above the Sea of Galilee, where visitors could ride in the area of the Ministry of Jesus and enjoy the historic scenery of the lake and the surrounding mountains. The idea of tourism in...
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The reports coming out of Syria describe the atrocities of Bashar Asad’s regime, in fighting against civilians. A stream of articles, pictures and videos show us the horrors of the civil war in Syria’s cities, the thousands of victims, and the atrocities committed by the regime. But, in between the lines there are a...
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