Arava

Suspected terror infiltration determined false alarm, was Jordanian Border Police operation

The red alert in Paran was the result of Jordanian border police officers chasing criminals into Israeli territory.

An Israeli soldier walks next to the border fence between Israel and Jordan, in southern Israel near Eilat February 9, 2016.
Breakfast overlooking the wadi at Six Senses Shaharut in the Negev.

Celebrating life at Israel’s luxurious desert retreat - opinion

Lotan.

24 hours in the desert: How to spend a day in the great wilderness

NEOT SEMADAR has a dazzling desert view

Kibbutz Neot Semadar: Israel's desert oasis quenches thirst for tranquility, nature’s raw beauty


Arava farmers may lose their fields in Jordan

Growing Dates in the Arava Desert

Jordan says chose not be flexible with Israel after cancels treaty annexes

On the anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Abdullah announced his intention to cancel the annexes to the peace agreement with Israel.

Island of Peace

How the Grateful Dead live on in Israel

The annual Dead Gathering in Israel marks a solid decade of celebrating the band.

LAST YEAR’S Dead Gathering.

Two new Negev towns approved to be built

The Ministry of Construction and Housing has tried to push for additional new communities in the south, but these were not approved by the committee on principle planning matters and were dismissed.

The Negev desert

Israeli agriculture on its way to China

Chinese farmers will gain Israeli agriculture know-how thanks to a new agreement signed today, the first day of the Agritech 2018 exhibition.

A WOMAN walks in a yard where tea leaves are dried at a tea company in Dening, Fujian Province, China, in 2016

Israeli water expert on S. Africa crisis: 'Manage water as stock'

Cape Town’s ‘Day Zero’ has been moved to June 1.

People queue to collect water from a spring in the Newlands suburb as fears over the city's water crisis grow in Cape Town, South Africa

AN OASIS OF HOPE

The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies celebrates its 20th anniversary with a gala ceremony in Tel Aviv.

MC Keren Mor, Achinoam Nini, David Lehrer and Ambassador Daniel Shek.

Israel's own 'Mr. Arava'

Bob Levine tours the region he helped nurture on his 98th trip to Israel.

Bob "Mr. Arava" Levine

Living on the edge of a dream – in Mitzpe Ramon

Last year Mitzpe turned 60, and the exhibition curated by Guy Raz chronicles the town’s evolution from a small bunch of hardy and, quite possibly, utopian- minded pioneers to a bona fide town.

‘Betonadot’ (concrete barricades), which served as residential quarters, prior to plaster and paint work, 1962

SPNI co-founder Amotz Zahavi dies at 89

In addition to his roles as a prominent zoologist and evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University, Zahavi was among the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.

The funeral of Amotz Zahavi.