Arava

Half an hour from Eilat, but light-years away: We found wonderful sanity in the desert

Kibbutz Lotan offers a different kind of vacation, featuring a relatively new Travel Hotel, an Eco-Fun complex, nature tours, and a single card that aggregates dozens of regional experiences.

Built using eco-friendly methods. The hotel’s old rooms that should be renovated
Six Senses Shaharut.

Six Senses Shaharut offers Tu B’Av experience blending cuisine, art, and desert

Ancient textile fragment found at the Nahal Omer archaeological site in the Arava, southern Israel, by archaeologists from the University of Haifa, May 19, 2026.

Silk Road Virtual Museum opens first Israel exhibit, displays ancient textiles found in Arava

Cache of ancient ostrich eggs found at an archaeological site near Nitzana, March 29, 2026.

Collection of 7,000-year-old ostrich eggs discovered under sand dunes in southern Israel


Joining hands to build a green future in the MidEast

The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is celebrating its 20th year of bringing together diverse populations to plan a healthier tomorrow.

Dr. Sarah Sallon, left, and Elaine Solowey with Methuselah

Expanding minds and grappling with pluralism in the Arava

Is there room for God in a secular or humanistic approach to Judaism?

Dan Shechtman

Ministry forms ‘special section’ to address Arab housing shortage

Galant: Prosperity of the Arab sector is in the interest of Israeli society as a whole.

CONSTRU CTION MINISTER Yoav Galant (second from left) and Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (second from right) discuss Arab-housing development plans with leaders of the community in the North yesterday.

New Water Resources and Development Potential in Israel’s South

The Jerusalem Post

Government launches NIS 100m. fund to help Arava farmers diversify away from peppers

Under the program, farmer who agree to convert their pepper growing areas into spaces to develop other crops are eligible to receive grants.

A peck of peppers

Judaism and Environment – An Interview with Rabbi Michael Cohen

The Jerusalem Post

Kibbutz Ketura – Pioneering Israeli History

The Jerusalem Post

Harvard to Haifa in the pursuit of medicine

Dr. Eric Amster – the San Diego native changing Israel’s environmental health one step at a time

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Tragic end as search party finds remains of pilot

Family find suicide note of Ein Vered man Avner Tshori, 38, who flew off in his ultra-light plane; body found in Arava desert.

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Generating Solar Power in the Arava

The Jerusalem Post