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As Israel reaches its 70th birthday, some will inevitably ob...
Templer buildings in the Sarona colony on Kaplan Street before final restoration.
Photo: David Shankbone Wikimedia Commons
Children of the Templers
Hotel Fast in Jerusalem ... with a swastika flag flying
Bethlehem of Galilee. Photo: Hoshvilim, Wikimedia Commons
I joined the tour of Sarona organized by ESRA Kfar-Saba/Hod ...
The Memorial of the Kibbutzim on the Menashe Hills. Photos & text: Lydia Aisenberg
A tank tread memorial to a fallen soldier near Kibbutz Beit Hashita in the Jezreel Valley
Almost two and a half thousand Israeli soldiers died in the ...
Cyclamen.
Text and Photos by Pamela Levene
Tulip
Dawn was breaking. It looked as if it was going to be a beau...
Nahal camp at Korazin on the northern shore of the Kinneret – building the infrastructure of Moshav Almagor
The writer aged 19, a kibbutz volunteer
On a sultry July day in 1959, I sat on a rock by David`s Tom...
The Hankins’ house perched above Gideon's spring at Ma'ayan Harod. Photos by Stephen Kliner
Tour guide Stephen Kliner
Arrow slit at Belvoir constructed of local basalt and limestone from nearby Gilboa.
ESRA tour members in front of the Hankins’ tomb
How do you relate a history scanning nearly 4,000 years or m...
A synagogue in the Babylonian Heritage Center in Or Yehuda. Photo: Ayelet Shemesh
The exterior of the Heritage Center has a Moorish influence Photo: Yehuda Katz
A market scene in the Heritage Center. Photo: Susan Lurie
The Rehovot ESRA branch had an outing to the Babylonian Jewr...
Illustration: Denis Shifrin
Two taxi drivers, Sam and Lennie, had been competitors from ...
The serenity of Tiberias To celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary, tour guide ONNIE SCHIFFMILLER describes some of Israel’s gems, both famous and hidden. They are divided by region and highlight restaurants, hikes (some wheelchair-accessible), cultural venues, workshops, and even a little shopping. So, pour yourself a glass of local wine, get comfortable in your favorite chair, and savor the ideas.
Familiar panorama of Tel Aviv
The North Home Hospitality Whenever people ask me why I love...
Characters Srulik and Handala arm in arm ... Lydia Aisenberg at the Wall
In the days when some political cartoonists risk their lives...
Some of the guests at the Independence Day gathering in Raanana: Marilyn Perl, Frances Solomonovitch, Illana Bank and Jennifer (Jen) Gompes
The chefs get ready to prepare the Yom Ha’atzmaut barbecue in Raanana: Spencer Jacob, Martin Perl and Elias McQuade
How did we celebrate Israel's 70th? On Independence Day an E...
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Plucky Israel has excelled at so many things and in so many ...
The prisoners’ courtyard at Akko Prison
The gallows at Akko prison
The refectory of the Crusader Hospitaller fortress
Early on November 21, 2017, a day the weatherman had promise...
The coach party of ESRAmagazine folk on their day out make a visit to Israeli West Barta’a. Photo: Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia Aisenberg
Readers of ESRA magazine are undoubtedly familiar with...
On the breadline ... busy at work at the Abulafia Bakery in Jaffa.
Grandsons of the two parties to the contract holding the original agreement
The familiar site of the Abulafia Bakery in Jaffa
One of the most iconic places to visit in Jaffa is the renow...
Children wearing bar/bat mitvah T-shirts
November 2017: Bar/Bat mitzvah children with the President of Israel
A soldier helping a boy with tefillin
"Everything has an appointed season, and there is a time for...
Tel Aviv’s famous promenade ... the tayelet
I'm having breakfast at a table for two, overlooking the Tel...
