27 Mar

Posted at 14:31h in Blog, Travel
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="11/12"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Ramon Crater [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]On our long drive from Eilat to Tel Aviv, we stopped at the Ramon Crater, or Makhtesh Ramon. As we approached the edge of the crater, I was...

27 Mar

Posted at 13:23h in Blog, Travel
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="11/12"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] International Birding and Research Center in Eilat (IBRCE) [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]"This is the last stop for birds to get water on their way south, and the first stop on their way north,"...

23 Mar

Posted at 02:21h in Blog, Travel
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="11/12"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Hatzeva Field School [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]We drove through rows of organic pepper and tomato greenhouses as Dorit introduced us to her home, the Hatzeva moshav. Solar panels lined the roof of facilities near...

22 Mar

Posted at 01:46h in Blog, Travel
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Wadi David Hike at Ein Gedi [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_gallery interval="3" images="1553,1554,1555" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]"King David used to hide in these caves," our tour guide, Reut, informed us as we arrived at the base of...

20 Mar

Posted at 19:07h in Blog, Travel
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="11/12"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Start-Up Nature Rewilding Project [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]We started our day at Ma'agan Michael, a kibbutz on the Mediterranean coast about an hour and a half northwest of Jerusalem. Our first stop was...

19 Mar

Posted at 18:46h in Blog, Travel
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="11/12"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Nili and David Jerusalem Bird Observatory [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]When Yossi Leshem, former CEO of SPNI, approached the mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, about funding bird research in the holy city, things looked...

28 Feb

Posted at 16:09h in Blog, Nature Israel News, Uncategorized
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1677617669953{padding-top: 3% !important;padding-bottom: 3% !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Jay Shofet, Director of Partnerships and Development [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="5/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6" css=".vc_custom_1677714563130{padding-right: 5% !important;}"][vc_column_text] If you...

24 Jan

Posted at 12:03h in Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]     The Jewish holiday of Tu B’shvat next week, the “new year for trees”,  has traditionally been a time to aid Israel by supporting Israeli tree planting. Indeed, as every tour guide will remind you, Israel is...

23 Jan

Posted at 12:51h in Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1674495580584{padding-top: 2% !important;padding-bottom: 2% !important;}"] by Rabbi Paul Citrin Monday, January 23, 2023 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]On a January day in 1925, Chayim Nachman Bialik delivered the keynote address at the inauguration of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. Two themes...

05 May

Posted at 06:10h in Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="842" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]For decades, Jews in the diaspora have been planting trees in Israel. This was done with the best of intentions. However, Israel’s leading...