The Dead Sea has been evolving during these past years, alas not for good….. The Dead Sea is facing a slow demise; it is now 1,377 feet below sea level and it has dropped more than 100 feet in these last 50 years; which has brought many worries re its continued existence. This refers to both its dehydration as well as...

Mount Sodom is located on the south-west side of the Dead Sea, rising some 200m above it. It is actually a series of mountains, 11KM long that are made of salt mixed with a variety of other minerals. The water, penetrating into the salt, is creating large cavities. The mountain is strongly connected with several...

Israel is one of the world’s most advanced countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities. The country has definitely come a long way since the 1980s.Even though several legislative acts have taken place in former years; an open gay-scenery has truly emerged in Tel Aviv, only in recent years. Tel-Aviv is now...

Initial credit for the concept of twinning cities should be awarded in time of post-WW2 – to the French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle and the Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer 1945. They were aiming at relieving the hostility between the two nations, hoping to allow a direct formation of relationship...

Israel is covered in white! The country has been swept in a unique weather system that has brought snow, hail and much rain, to a usually  warm country, in December 2013. Aside the beauty of the scenery; the children playing outside in the snow (and the closed schools…), many houses in the north as well as in Jerusalem...

Falafel is one of the unique foods in the land of Israel.  It had started long ago, in the Middle East altogether, as a fast food. I is believed to be, traditionally, an Arab food that has been adopted by Israeli Jews. The word falafel probably descended from the Arabic word falafel (a plural for filfi- meaning...

The “Makhtesh” is a Geological Phenomenon that is unique to the Middle Eastern parts, which had been created due to the erosion of a Mountain that had been filled with soft stone. The Phenomenon had started about 110 million years ago. The Hebrew term of “Makhtesh” can be translated onto the English work...