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


Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline company to pay NIS 100 million for oil spill

On December 3, 2014, 5 million liters of oil spilled close to the town of Be’er Ora, approximately 20 km. north of Eilat, and badly damaged the Evrona Nature Reserve.

Members of a clean-up team work at the site of the EAPC oil spill at the Evrona desert reserve in the Arava.

Arava film fest to screen ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ best new films

‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif.

3 children, including 2 French olim, killed in car accidents in Israel

Sisters Shirel and Mila Ben-Simon, who had made aliyah with their family from France three months ago, died in a collision on Route 90 the Arava on Thursday. They were four and seven.

Remnants of a car involved in a car accident in the Arava where two children died

Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard spotted in Israel's South

The endangered species is native to the region and is harmless to humans, eating only leaves and vegetation.

An Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard in the South.

Festival review: Half a thousand strong at Israel’s Woodstock

Almost Cut My Hair: Celebrating 50 years since Woodstock * Camel Bar Camping, Arava * April 3-5

The welcoming banner to the 'Almost Cut My Hair' festival

Week of events in Israeli desert celebrates nature

"24/Nature" event held in memory of Prof. Amotz Zehavi, reknowned zoologist.

A laughingthrush lands on a birdwatcher's binoculars.

Diplomatic Affairs: The anti-terrorism price tag

Clean water and Israeli-Palestinian coexistence efforts become collateral damage of new Trump administration legislation.

STUDENTS AT the USAID-funded Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, located on Kibbutz Ketura, use the desert as their classroom

An Israeli festival dedicated to the Arava's dates

The festival, from November 8 to 10, will include activities for the whole family.

SCALE A climbing wall at the Kibbutz Elifaz happening.

Israel farmers under threat from government's import policies

"The citizens of Israel will eat zucchini from Turkey and the West Bank and the Israeli zucchini that we grow here on Israeli earth and in the Arava will be thrown in the garbage."

Arava Power’s solar power site at Kibbutz Elifaz

Arava farmers may lose their fields in Jordan

Growing Dates in the Arava Desert