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Darom Adom Festival

Fields of red anemones in Shokeda Forest on February 20, 2026 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 26, 2026, 10:33 pm
Gaza envelope hosts Darom BaLev for 2nd year as anemones carpet south
Annual festival returns to the region and semi-normalcy, though organizers aren’t quite ready to call it Darom Adom again
By Jessica Steinberg
Visitors enjoy anemone season in southern Israel, February 2024 (Courtesy)
February 1, 2025, 5:50 am
In battle-weary Gaza envelope, annual anemone event seeks to make region bloom again
A muted version of the flower pilgrimage in February will memorialize those killed and kidnapped on Oct. 7, and host the small businesses again cropping up after the tragedy
By Jessica Steinberg
Vered Libstein poses for a portrait among anemone wildflowers in bloom near Kibbutz Or HaNer in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
February 16, 2024, 10:05 pm
South Israel was filled with blood, death. Brilliant red flowers now bloom among ashes
Vered Libstein founded the festival celebrating the blossoms 19 years ago; her husband, son and mother were all murdered on Oct. 7; ‘Life is stronger than everything,’ she says
By Melanie Lidman
Photographer Eyal Bribram's photos of anemones beginning to bloom in Israel's south, in January 2024 (Courtesy)
January 30, 2024, 8:26 pm
Red anemones carpet south as annual festival, muted this year, celebrates them
Visitors are welcomed back to region devastated on October 7, for event including marathon, march for hostages and nature walks
By Jessica Steinberg
Soldiers drive by anemones at a forest near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on January 21, 2024 (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
January 23, 2024, 3:38 pm
Oblivious to war, Israel’s iconic red anemone blooms again along the Gaza border
The flower is the first of five species of bowl-shaped red blossoms with black centers that bloom one after the other, so as not to compete for pollinating beetles
By Sue Surkes
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A field of anemone flowers blossoming in Shokeda Forest, southern Israel, January 30, 2019 (Dudi Modan/Flash90)
February 13, 2021, 2:44 pm
Tens of thousands flock to nature reserves as lockdown eased, temperatures rise
With stormclouds on the horizon for later this week, Israelis take advantage of eased restrictions while the warm weather lasts
By ToI Staff
A field of anemones in Israel's northern Negev region, home to the annual Darom Adom festival, taking place February 2021 (Courtesy Darom Adom)
January 31, 2021, 4:00 pm
As anemones bloom, south hopes visitors will pop up after lockdown
Israel’s annual wildflower season is set to begin; festival organizers are clinging to prospects of eased restrictions allowing nature walks
By Jessica Steinberg
Overlooking the hills near Nahal Besor, in the Negev (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 12, 2020, 10:54 am
Head south on the cheap, to smell the flowers and find other pleasures
Plan a winter weekend getaway at Darom Adom to soak up some sun, and a few other (mostly) free activities
By Jessica Steinberg
Kalniyot at the Be'eri nature reserve, February 4, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 7, 2019, 10:55 am
In south, red is the new black as scorched lands give way to annual flower craze
Fires that burned 16,000 dunams near Gaza border decimated other plants that usually compete with the seasonal red flower, clearing way for one of the reddest Darom Adoms in years
By Melanie Lidman and Photos and video: Luke Tress
A field of anemone flowers blossoming in Shokeda Forest, in the south of Israel on January 30, 2019. (Dudi Modan/Flash90)
February 2, 2019, 10:33 pm
60,000 flock to south where fields torched by incendiary balloons now bloom
Adom Darom Festival goers celebrate the annual blooming of red anemones as 150,000 Israelis trek through national parks countrywide over the sunny, springlike weekend
By ToI Staff
'Kalaniyot,' or anemones, blossom across southern Israel in late January and February. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
January 22, 2016, 11:08 am
Slow down and smell the South
Starting this weekend, Darom Adom Festival celebrates annual blossoming of ‘kalaniyot’ (anemones) in Gaza border communities of southern Israel
By Melanie Lidman
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