Mitzpe Ramon

Resilience on the frontlines: A year after returning to Kibbutz Dafna - opinion

In Kibbutz Dafna, life under sirens and rockets continues, but residents remain steadfast.

 Smoke billows over northern Israel after rockets were fired from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, by Israel's border with Lebanon, May 17, 2024.
Bus carrying IDF soldiers to base overturns near Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, February 26, 2026.

Within two hours: Three bus crashes in southern Israel leave 37 injured, including IDF soldiers

Israel from space 1

Mitzpe Ramon to become Israel's 'Space City,' creating new hub for civil space exploration

The Pauker Red made in memory of winemaker Gideon Pauker, murdered on Oct. 7, 2023.

Wine Talk: Wine on the edge


Mekorot to double the amount of water supplied to the Mitzpe Ramon area

 A monitor station run by Mekorot measures the water quality of the Sea of Galilee on January 23, 2023.

Taking a puff: Wasp spotted holding cigarette in Israel's Mitzpe Ramon

A wasp was seen clutching a cigarette filter in the Mitzpe Ramon crater. One man in the area saw it and took a stunning wildlife photo.

 A wasp is seen carrying a cigarette butt in the Ramon crater.

David Alfandary debuts first album in Mitzpe Ramon

The wind instrument player is finally releasing his debut record, Spring, at the not-so-tender age of 56, at the Internal Compass Summer Jazz Festival which takes place at Mitzpe Ramon August 23-26.

 DAVID ALFARANDY is releasing his debut record, ‘Spring,’ at the Jazz Festival taking place at Mitzpe Ramon.

Police arrest three Israeli activists for painted LGBT flag on road

After the Pride march in the city on Friday, activists painted the words "Here to stay" and a Pride flag on the road.

 A Pride flag and the words "here to stay" on a road at the entrance to Mitzpe Ramon.

annaRF to perform at Israel's Intimidbar Festival in Mitzpe Ramon

Since they formed, 10 years ago, in the tiny village of Shacharut in the Arava, they have performed across all four corners of Europe and India.

 ELECTRO-REGGAE-ETHNIC band annaRF will perfom at Intimidbar at the end of the month.

Ellen Lapidus Stern: The aliyah story of the well-known Israeli artist

Lapidus Stern is well known in Israel and internationally for her colorful and imaginative oil paintings. Many of them are on permanent exhibition, others in private collections.

 WITH ‘HADAR,’ a five-meter-high oil on canvas, now on display at the Jerusalem Municipality.

Things to do in Israel's Negev Desert in the winter

The organizers have spent a lot of time thinking about what is the best way to offer overseas tourists, as well as Israelis who live throughout the country, a glimpse of the beauty of the Negev.

 Tze’ela’s Farm.

Mitzpe Ramon hosts top musicians, both local and from Japan

The seventh edition of the Jazz on the Edge festival takes place December 28-31, under the artistic aegis of internationally renowned bassist Ehud Ettun

 EHUD ETTUN with Haruka Yabuno

‘Midbar’ art exhibit brings the desert to life at the Beresheet Hotel

The exhibition is spread across 50,000 square m. of hotel grounds, both inside and outside of the Negev Desert and the Ramon Crater.

 ‘PASSAGES’ BY Enatnesh Yallow.

'We will kill them': Concerns of violence at Mitzpe Ramon LGBTQ+ Pride march

Both LGBTQ+ and right-wing leaders have called for participants of the Pride march and counterprotest to avoid violence.

 People participate in the first Gay Pride Parade in Mitzpe Ramon, on July 2, 2021.