I HAVE THIS THING with hiking. Three years ago, while visiting the Golan Heights in northern Israel, I set out on a solo trek to see a waterfall at sunset and got turned around. I ended up scrambling ...

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The Ramon Crater (“Makhtesh Ramon”) in the Negev desert is the world’s largest erosion crater. The crater’s ancient history dates back 220 million years to when an ocean once filled the massive hole, ...

A prominent Jewish organization wants to turn the mostly barren desert that is the Negev into a string of tree-lined, thriving communities dotted with verdant parks, flowering fields and pristine ...

When Jesus headed out into the desert, he fasted for 40 days and was tempted by the devil. My own experience heading out of Jerusalem and into the Negev Desert was quite different. The Israeli ...