1We think we have problems with bushfires here in Australia, but Israel is not only fighting fires resulting from the dry summer; fires have erupted in the Golan Heights as the result of rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel by Hezbollah terrorists. Deserted local towns and villages close to I…
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Two farms near the Gaza border are working with an agricultural robotics company to rebuild their processes following personal loss and injury suffered in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack.[1]
Kibbutz Alumim[2] is in the southwest of Israel, near the Gaza border. The director of agricult…
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One of the largest and most important rivers in Israel today, the Kishon River is amongst the most complex. It rises in the hills about Tabor and Gilboa, and flows along the Plain of Esdraelon from the Jezreel Valley to the sea at Haifa Bay.
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Lying at the bottom of the Earth’s deepest fault, the Dead Sea is 396 metres below sea level.[1] It is the saltiest body of water in the world and holds large quantities of valuable minerals. The earliest reference in the Bible calls it the Salt Sea (Gen 14:3), and it is also known as the Sea of the Plain (Deut 4:49) and the East Sea (Ezek 47:18). There are other indirect references to the Dead Sea in the Scriptures.
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In 1881, Eliezer Ben Yehuda[1] began creating a Hebrew dictionary for the modern Jewish state. As a young man, Ben Yehuda “realized that Jews could never have any country of their own, or any national entity, unless they had a common language”.[2] Today, his work continues at the Acad…
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More than half desert, frequently hit with drought and subject to chronic water shortages in the past, Israel now produces 20 percent more water than it needs. But, in 2015, the gap between demand and available natural water supplies had reached 1 billion cubic metres. Israel’s rapidly growing po…
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Yatir Forest was established in 1966 as a project using trees to roll back the desert. The largest forest in Israel, Yatir Forest was created by Yosef Weitz, who believed that planting trees would completely change the arid landscape of the northern Negev. Affectionately known as “The Father of Fo…
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Brother Thomas writes in Elpis Israel that in returning to the Land, the Jews “will emigrate thither as agriculturists and traders”.1 When Jews began to settle in Palestine in the late nineteenth century, they created agricultural settlements which were later to lay the f…
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After the conclusion of the First World War, a conference was convened at San Remo, taly, in 1920, which gave legitimacy to the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine under the protection of Britain. At the San Remo Conference, Britain and France divided the Tur…
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One of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War was fought on Ammunition Hill (Givat HaTachmoshet) on the night of 6 June 1967, in the battle for Jerusalem. During the British Mandate, the hill was used to store ammunition, and so became known as Ammunition Hill.2
Securing the hill to the …
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