Arava

Celebrating life at Israel’s luxurious desert retreat - opinion

Six Senses Shaharut, located in the Arava desert, became the perfect setting to celebrate survival, breathe deeply again, and appreciate the rare gift of simply being here.

Breakfast overlooking the wadi at Six Senses Shaharut in the Negev.
Lotan.

24 hours in the desert: How to spend a day in the great wilderness

NEOT SEMADAR has a dazzling desert view

Kibbutz Neot Semadar: Israel's desert oasis quenches thirst for tranquility, nature’s raw beauty

The Herbert Samuel Reef Hotel

The Herbert Samuel Reef Hotel, Eilat: Boutique luxury in a city under fire


The Arava Film Festival opens in Israel

The Arava International Film Festival features the best of recent international and Israeli cinema, as well as classics.

 LAMB Is one of the films featured at the 2021 Arava International Film Festival

Israel is about to see some meteor showers - here's where

Take advantage of the times and go watch a meteor shower. The Jerusalem Post Magazine offers a list of the best locations to camp out and see it.

 Stargazing and looking for meteor showers in the Arava, Israel

In the desert, you can be a paramedic, fireman, solider and cop at once

A Jewish National Fund-USA project set up essential emergency assistance in the Arava desert.

Arava emergency center

Plague of pests: Lots of locusts swarm Israel's South - watch

Regardless of their legendary reputations and the sheer size and numbers of the current swarm, the locusts pose no danger to humans or animals whatsoever.

A locust is held by Israeli researcher at the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Life Sciences December 22, 2015. Israeli researchers have developed a high-jumping locust lookalike robot that they hope could one day replace humans in military or search-and-rescue operations. P

Vacation: Visiting Israel's Arava region

If you’d like to learn more about the region’s prosperous agricultural activity, the best place to start is at the Vidor Center.

A visit to Israel's Arava region.

4-year-old airlifted to hospital after crocodile bite in southern Israel

"I heard screams - I went over and his hand looked like it had been torn off," the mother said.

A crocodile spotted in the northern moshav of Beit Hanania

Employees of EAPC may be indicted for involvement in 2014 oil spill

The incident took place on December 3, 2014, during the construction of the Ramon Airport north of Eilat, which required diverting a section of the Eilat-Ashkelon oil pipeline.

OIL SLICKS from the burst Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline blacken the Evrona Nature Reserve, threaten vegetation and endanger wildlife.

Dates from time of Maccabees & Jesus are revived, bring Jewish, Arab unity

Grown at the Arava Institute with its Palestinian, Israeli and Jordanian student body, the 'Methuselah' and 'Hannah' dates show the potential for renewal, like Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones.

‘A HONEY or caramel aftertaste.’ Researchers Dr. Elaine Soloway of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (left), along with Dr. Sarah Salon of Hadassah Medical Center, moments after picking the dates.

JNF Joint Institute gets matching gift from Boston-based foundation

The funding will support the Institute’s initial research phase, demonstrating sustainable methods of food production in an arid environment.

Palm trees grow at an R&D station in Israel's Arava region

Joint Israeli-Palestinian effort donates water generator to Gaza hospital

The third water generator donation was made on behalf of joint cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian entities, and was donated to Gaza's second largest hospital.

A Watergen generator was donated to Gaza's second largest hospital by Watergen Company and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies with Palestinian partners, July, 2020.