1912: Pioneers of the Second Aliyah immigrated to create
a revival of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel
The original settlement at Hatzar Kinneret
What an exhilarating experience to see our beloved Lake Kinn...
Nahariya flood in the 1930s (Photo: Courtesy of Nahariya Museum)
It is Sunday, January 5, 2020, around 20:00. Returning...
The girls’ notice board in the grocery
store
Photos by Einav Olswang How ingenious youngsters got to grip...
Volunteer Adi Mantegvosh Amara with an egg-layer who said ‘Thank You’ after de-lousing (Photo: Freedom Farm Sanctuary)
Mother and daughter dairy cows Angela (left) and Gali, saved from slaughter and re-united (Photo: Freedom Farm Sanctuary)
ESRA’s Maia Aron with Billy, a goat who was considered “useless” because of his disability and was left to die (Photo: Ruth Levy-Abramson)
It may be difficult to teach empathy and compassion, but it ...
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg (Photo: Wikipedia)
The youth climate change demonstration in Tel Aviv Rothschild Boulevard
A protester with the words “I want to live” etched on her face
Photos: Strike for Future Israel It's sexy, it's cool; the i...
Have bin bags, will clean up ... (from left) Martha Kruger, Karen Fruchtman, Sylvie Schapira, Claire Curetti and Sylvia Kruger
When ESRA member Sylvie Schapira landed in Zichron in 2015, ...
Israel is a rare example in the world of a water-starved cou...
Tremors in our part of the world are overdue. Don't panic – ...
The garden’s waterlily pool
Two views of Botanical Gardens baby baobabs
In the land of dreamers, every new venture starts as a dream...
Hot smoking ground with Kibbutz Nachal Oz in the background
A firefighter and fire truck working on the edge of the Beeri Forest
A salute to the brave men tasked with putting out the flames...
The tree with branches everywhere ... the sycamore in Netanya’s HaShikma Garden. Photo Credit: Avishai teicher, via Wikimedia Commons
Modern mosaic of the sycamore
If trees could talk, the Etz HaShikma (the Sycamore) of Neta...
Henry Shakenovsky on his bridge over untroubled waters in his Ramat Hasharon garden. Story and photos by Lynette Karp
A koi swims in the stone fish pond
Henry Shakenovsky is not only a distinguished man of t...
Illustration by Denis Shifrin
It was a hot day when I discovered I needed some disti...
1922: The Waldman family in Tel Aviv (from left) Elka, Moshe, Lala (Dave Bloom’s mother), Rose, Betty
Moshe Waldman as a young soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army – First World War
The Power Hydro Electric Power Station on the Jordan River in the 1920s. Photo: Zionist Archives
Some of the Photovoltaic (PC) panels on the roof of Gail and Dave Bloom’s home in Kochav Yair
Moshe Waldman (second row on left), with Pinhas Rutenberg (second row, fourth from left, ) and workers of the original Israel Electric Corporation at the first diesel-powered station in Hachashmal Street, Tel Aviv, circa 1926
My story starts almost 100 years ago when my maternal ...
Metal gazelle cutouts on watch over Gazelle Valley.
Story and photo by Lydia Aisenberg
How it used to be ... packing fruit in the Gazelle Valley
A short distance from the Begin highway, the most heavily tr...
Sheila Patz cuts the ribbon to launch the Max Patz Trail
Patz ... nature lover
The Max Patz family dynasty outside the bird observatory
QR code for phones
The Jerusalem Bird Observatory, situated in the heart of Jer...