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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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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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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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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