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Posted on March 4, 2021

Wow! Ashkelon

It's hard to get a "Wow!" out of my kids. One of the detrimental aspects of being a child of a tour guide is that…

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Posted on February 25, 2021

Red South – Tel Jamma

We really haven't had much winter this year. Yes, there was a brief moment of snow in some parts of the country - never in…

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Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

Red South – Besor Stream National Park

This week I went to Besor Stream National park in search of red flowers as part of the Red South February festival. It's a national…

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Posted on February 4, 2021February 2, 2021

Red South – Pura Nature Reserve

It's been hard for me recently during the lockdown to write about places I can't even dream of visiting. But now, with the end of…

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Posted on December 15, 2020December 15, 2020

Halutza in Be’er Sheva – Haya in the Negev

Part of a Series – Hanukkah 2020 – Nes Gadol Haya Po – Be'er Sheva and the Negev Sitting at the confluence of Nahal Besor…

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Posted on October 15, 2020October 1, 2020

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;…

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Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

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…

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Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

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…

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Posted on September 17, 2020September 15, 2020

Dimona – Gateway to the World

Dimona, deep into the Negev, is off the beaten track. Best known for its nuclear power plant, and Nabatean remains, the development town is not…

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Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020

Ecstasy in Arad

Ecstasy - being so overwhelmed by faith that one loses oneself - has always been a part of religious devotion. The question is: how do…

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