[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...

[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,"...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...