Last July, the annual Terra Olivo Mediterranean International Olive Oil Competition took place in Israel for the first time, attracting olive oil producers from around the globe, to Jerusalem. Israel produces less than 10,000 of the three million tons of olive oil produced worldwide each year, yet Israel’s olive oil is internationally acclaimed. At...
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Ramla may be one of Israel’s most surprising destinations. The city’s grand past has been eclipsed by urban blight in recent years, but glimpses of it still can be seen today in the most unpredictable places.
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The Land of Promise was a movie created as a propaganda tool of the Zionist movement. It not only received critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, but was used by Nazi Germany to encourage Jews to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
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Ein Kerem is the only village within the Green Line that still is built around a spring at whose feet the remains of the traditional agricultural terraces that the spring once watered can be seen.
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Fifty years have passed since Pessah Bar-Adon discovered, in a cave in the Judean Desert canyon of Nahal Mishmar, the biggest hoard of ancient artifacts ever found in the Land of Israel: 429 copper objects, wrapped in a reed mat. Five decades and dozens of academic papers after their discovery, the enigma of how...
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