Articles on The Land of Israel

Thorns in the desert

A Love of Thorns

The Land's thorns teach us a great secret about love

The caper bush

The Secret of the Caper Bush

And how it is connected to the daughters of Zelophehad and the Torah portions of Pinchas and Masei

Ilana-Island

The Girl Who Opposed the Cable Car at Masada

And what the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense wrote back to her

The grave of Naomi Shemer

The Tragedy That Gave Us Naomi Shemer

I bore you alone, I raised you alone, and I buried you alone!

Why are you fighting nature lovers

Why Do You Fight the Lovers of Nature?

And why was the Society for the Love of the Land never founded?

Why Snow Is the Symbol of Forgiveness and Atonement

And how this relates to the wondrous quiet that falls the moment the snow begins to come down

The locations of the historical events in the Dothan Valley

Why the Nazis Failed to Establish Extermination Camps in the Dothan Valley

Joseph's pit did not become the killing pits

Burning bush small 3

Does the Bush Really Burn at Har Karkom?

And how Mount Sinai was marketed to us within the borders of the State of Israel

The Mountain Kingdom (small)

Why Did Zionism Ignore the Mountain Regions?

Zionism's problems with Judea and Samaria began long before the Six-Day War

Jabbok 23

The Hike That Solved the Mystery Behind the Jabbok Crossing

At the Jabbok crossing we received the name of the people of Israel. But what really happened there? For Parashat Vayishlach

Israel is surrounded by deserts. Photographed from the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2002

How the Desert Landscape Shaped the People of Israel

Sixty percent of our country's territory is desert, and that carries great meaning

The cedars of Lebanon at the foot of the Lebanon mountains

Lebanon – Our Greatest Friend

Until the seventies of the twentieth century

Why did the national poetesses come precisely from the Kinneret?

And why does everyone who encounters it burst into song?

Haifa from above. Photo: Zvi Roger

Haifa Is an Acquired Taste

And why she hops between two opinions

A garland instead of ashes

The Branches That Rose from the Ashes

How an olive grove in the Galilee helped me understand the verse "a garland instead of ashes"

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