Good Name and Good Oil
A Good Name is better than Good Oil - Ecclesiastes 7:1 During the holiday of Hanukkah, much of the ritual surrounds oil. The menorah, which…
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Beer Sheva Copper
There is always new research coming out and amazing things are found every day in Israel. There are so many one-of-a-kind discoveries that it is…
Magical Ash
Recently, on the way to my grandchildren's home, we drove past Qesem Cave. My son asked me innocently, "What's new in Qesem Cave?" They know…
A Model Neighborhood
Beer Sheva doesn't have the popular reputation as a center of architectural innovation - but surprisingly, it is. Faced with large-scale immigration of refugees, the…
Pioneers in Motza
In the days before Corona, I went on an overcast winter's day on a tour with other guides and the education department of the Tower…
Avoiding Debt
What would you do to avoid debt collectors? There are lots of interesting stories of people and populations throughout the ages who changed some part…
House of Bones
I went to school to learn philosophy and I work as a tour guide. It may seem as though these two fields are totally unrelated;…
Tents or Houses?
When looking at the interface between biblical text and archaeology, we need to determine to what degree broken walls, fragments and stones can tell the…
Living in Tents
We approach the season of Sukkot, when Jews are commanded to live in tents to remember the 40 years of living in the desert before…
Games in the Negev
My family is obsessive about playing games. As a little girl growing up in Minnesota, playing games with my grandparents and cousins was the activity…
