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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

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A younger resident of Shahak Heights enjoying his bike. (Shira Malul/via Ayalim)
December 29, 2020, 11:10 am
For 21st century Zionist pioneers, it takes an off-the-grid eco-village
Green tech underpins first of several planned eco-communities in Negev cities, but organizers struggle to find secular families as idealistic as young religious ones
By Sue Surkes
Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West)
October 15, 2017, 4:03 am
Frontier Jews find more ‘Green Acres’ than Goldene Medina in rural Dakota
Like fellow Americans moving West, the first Jews who settled in the Dakota Territory were attracted by the Homestead Act of 1862
By Rich Tenorio
Revivim cactus (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
August 17, 2013, 10:48 am
Prickly past: A trip to Mitzpe Revivim
Few can comprehend the reality of pre-state life, when the British ruled the country. The restored Mitzpe Revivim offers physical evidence of the pioneers and their travails
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
A donkey wanders along Patriarch's Way (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 24, 2012, 5:17 am
Gush Etzion, land of nine lives
Settled, destroyed, and resettled, the Etzion Bloc is an irrepressible wellspring of natural, ancient, and historic wonder, divided by a road where the Patriarchs once walked. But did King Herod ever ride the Zip-line?
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The view from Herzl House (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 3, 2012, 6:08 am
In the midst of a forest, a house for Herzl
An early 20th-century villa built in tribute to the Zionist founder is nestled in the center of the Hulda Forest, surrounded by lush foliage of every variety. A training farm for pioneers, it proved an unlikely retreat during the riots of 1929
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
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