Land for Peace or Piece of Land?
In diplomacy and in business, long term leases are often the closest thing to outright sale. In Israel, for example, much of the land is…
Stones and Bones
Some people's impression of Israel is Stones and Bones. And indeed, for a country which has built with stone for millenia, and who celebrates her…
Turtle Soup
Turtles are one of the first wild creatures to which kids have a connection. It is a wild animal that moves slowly enough on land…
Neglect at the Spring
I write so often of settlement - studying settlement and learning about the past, but we forget that settlement is also destructive. A place which…
History Set in Stone
Geology tends to be one of those subject you need to learn for the Tour Guide test, but which everyone dreads. Rocks were formed over…
Board Crusaders
"I'm bored," is a phrase uttered by children and a thorn in the side of many overwhelmed parents. How can children be bored when there…
