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She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from ...
Israeli farmers whose dream of producing tequila was cut short by Hamas's October 7 attack have returned to work along the ...
In Pakistan, thousands of protesters have fought against the Cholistan Canal Project, which would divert water from the Indus River to irrigate millions of hectares of desert for corporate farming.
Even before Israel’s war in Gaza started, the territory was one of the most densely populated places on the planet, described by United Nations officials as an “open-air prison.” Now ...
Why are deserts so important within Jewish tradition? So important, in fact, that the Torah was given to us in a desert — something we remember every year on the festival of Shavuot, which we ...
Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas, the White House said Thursday.The fresh signs of progress towards a temporary truce came after U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Every year, we read a Torah portion called Bamidbar—in the desert—on the Shabbat before Shavuot. This portion describes the census of the Jews in the desert. Just as we count forty-nine days ...
To date, every Bedouin ownership claim for land in the Negev examined in court was deemed unfounded, unsupported and untenable (in sharp contrast with ownership claims filed for land in northern ...
A breathtaking mosaic dating back approximately 1,600 years has been unveiled to the public for the first time in Israel’s Western Negev, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Tuesday.
peppers and eggplant on a kibbutz in Israel’s Negev desert, using drip irrigation. In the spring, during the scheduled kibbutz portion of the program, I returned to that kibbutz, overlooking the ...