In the past three months, we have asked for your cooperation in enlisting to our forthcoming newsletter edition. Here are the three winners. We’ve received a great amount of compliance and we thank all of you for that. We are happy to be sending the first edition of the newsletter along, soon, by September 15. We had...

Daliat el-Carmel is a Druze village, set on the slopes of the Carmel Mountain, in the north of Israel, near the city of Haifa. It’s a bright fully colorful with unique hospitality to passers by as well as to tourists. The village had been founded in the 17th century by Druze from Mt. Lebanon. The village offers a...

Halvah, is one of the most common desserts in the middle east, as in other parts of the world. The dish is based on dense Tchina, in a variety of types: with peanuts, oil, or with coffee beans. Its is considered to be of oriental descent, but no one really knows. Rumour has it that it actually originated from Turkey,...

Once in a cycle of time, a large snowball flies in and reaches our solar system Each time it arrives, around August 10-12, Earth goes through this large cloud of very small space- particles; that usually burn up in our atmosphere and create one of nature’s most spectacular annual events. This is called “The Perseid...

David Ben Gurion was the 1st prime minster of the state of Israel. He started his role in 1948 together along with the declaration of Independence of Israel. He was born in Poland but decided to come and live in Israel in 1906, at the age of twenty, believing that this was the land of the Jewish people and wanting to...

Saying sinkholes, in Israel, means…the sinkholes of the surrounding of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is now 1,377 feet below sea level. One of the phenomena referring to the area of the Dead Sea is the phenomena of the sinkholes. What is a sinkhole? A sinkhole is a small crater, similar to holes that open up without any...

Ein Karen is a small community in the outskirts of Jerusalem; it is an important place, mainly due to two reasons: The first is that John the Baptist is believed to have been born in Ein Karem. The second is that tradition has it that the stones that had built the Jewish second Temple’s altar, had been brought from Ein...

You are invited to enjoy a Gem in the desert, in the south of Israel, near Kibutz Revivim. It started as a Quarry, in the wadi of the river, Rvivim (Asluje, in Arabic), in the middle of nowhere in the desert. The crater that had been created by this quarry reached the level of Groundwater and had immersed into a...

Tut-Neyar Paper-Mill is a unique artist gallery shop, in the old town of Zichron-Yaakov, near Haifa. The team is dedicated to making quality hand-made paper of highest quality; its main raw material is the inner bark of the Paper Mulberry tree , which we grow ourselves. All products are refine works of art, delicate...

The house of beatitude is the meaning of the name- Beit Jimal. It is a Catholic monastery that had been established in 1881, on the slopes of the Judean Mountains, near the city of Beit Shemesh. Tradition has it that this was the burial site of St. Stephen, who is considered to be the very first Christian...