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Beit She'an Valley

Dried up fishponds in Emek Maayanot, April 2026 (Courtesy)
April 19, 2026, 4:38 pm
Green in the valley: Israel’s abandoned fishponds are turning into a solar goldmine
In a pathbreaking deal, a project in northern Israel will generate clean energy, restore natural habitats, and share profits between local kibbutzim and the city of Beit She’an
By Aviv Lavie
Prof. Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a team of Israeli researchers documented a 15th-century tunnel system in the Beit She’an Valley built under Mamluk rule, highlighting the technological ingenuity behind it, in a study published in October 2025. (Azriel Yechezkel/Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
October 27, 2025, 9:29 am
Mamluk startup nation? 15th-century water tech boosted sugar industry in Israel’s north
Israeli researchers document and date tunnel system in spring-rich region, highlighting the technological ingenuity used by empire founded by formerly enslaved Muslim soldiers
By Rossella Tercatin
Tel Tsaf rounded silos. (Boaz Garfinkel/Hebrew University)
June 10, 2021, 8:45 pm
7,000-year-old seal impression marks prehistoric site as early trade hub
A twice-stamped little ancient blob of clay discovered in Tel Tsaf — alongside other evidence — leads researchers to deduce a millennia-old complex mercantile exchange
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Black kites and White storks fly over the Dudaim landfill site near Beersheba, southern Israel, March 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 24, 2018, 12:25 am
Israel seeing early flocks of migrating storks amid hot European summer
After heading south from Poland, stork seen nesting in Beit She’an Valley, the only known nesting site below sea level
By AP and Michael Bachner
Seven-year-old Hadas Goldberg-Keidar from Kibbutz Heftziba with the intact 2,200-year-old clay lamp next to porcupines' cave in the Beit She'an Valley. (Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 12, 2017, 1:11 pm
In porcupines’ den, mother and daughter discover 2,200-year-old Hasmonean lamp
Just in time for Hanukkah, a strolling family finds proof of how the Maccabees ‘expelled the darkness’ during their famous revolt
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Beit She'an valley. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 23, 2015, 9:28 am
Stray bullet strikes vacationing woman in head
Ruth Maman hit during outing near Jordanian border
By ToI Staff
'My Daughter,' a joint work by Neta and Michael Elkayam, being exhibited at Beit Avi-Chai. Father and daughter draw on each other’s work for inspiration (photo credit: Amit Shai Cohen)
September 16, 2013, 5:59 am
Festivals during the festival
A guide to what’s happening out there during the upcoming holiday season
By Jessica Steinberg
The delicate sweetness of figs, in season now (photo credit: Andrea Brownstein/Photoli Photography)
August 12, 2013, 4:28 am
Under the fig tree
Paired with soft goat cheese and silan honey and drizzled with a balsamic vinegar reduction, this late summer treat is delicate and sweet
By Shira Buzelan
A crane flying at the Hula Valley (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)
October 12, 2012, 12:29 pm
It’s for the birds
Top five birds to look for now, as they wing their way southwest
By Jessica Steinberg
Washing the carrots, a task that was once accomplished by kibbutzniks with their booted feet (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 16, 2012, 9:42 pm
Matchstick, Chantenay or baby: A kibbutz’s love affair with the carrot
Over 60 resilient and innovative years, Kibbutz Shluhot has built a little orange empire
By Jessica Steinberg
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