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negev desert
Episode 28: Midburn, Israel’s Burning Man Festival with Itamar Cohen
Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein
March 13, 2017
A vision for an oasis in the desert: Timna Park
Jewish Journal
August 17, 2016
Three decades ago, a man from Milwaukee looked out at a lonely stretch of the Negev desert in southern Israel and decided to create something seemingly impossible: a tourism draw.
Two rockets fired from Gaza, no injuries reported
Jewish Journal
June 3, 2015
Two rockets fired from Gaza landed in open areas in Israel’s Negev Desert.
Israel’s Burning Man festival gets go-ahead
Jewish Journal
May 18, 2015
Beersheba police must allow the Israeli version of the Burning Man festival to take place, an Israeli court ruled.
Can a cybersecurity center bloom in Israel’s Negev?
Simone Wilson
December 18, 2014
On the far east edge of sprawling Beersheva, a determined weed of a city within Israel’s southern desert expanse, a new school of Zionists — defense techies — are building a live-work hub with an increasingly relevant focus: cybersecurity.
Israel forced to rethink ‘unconstitutional’ African expulsion plan
Simone Wilson
October 1, 2014
A historic 216-page ruling handed down on Sept. 22 by the Supreme Court of Israel marks a breakthrough for the young country’s muddled migrant and refugee law.
Flash flood in Israel’s desert (VIDEO)
Jewish Journal
March 18, 2014
Is this what the Red Sea looked like when the waters came rushing back after the Israelites had crossed?
New Israeli detention center falls flat
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2013
After three days of walking in the cold and snow, many of them on hunger strike, 150 African asylum seekers were forced onto buses and taken back to the new detention center in the Negev desert.
The Six-Day War, still
Rob Eshman
June 5, 2013
The Six-Day War began at 7:10 a.m. on June 5, 1967. By 10 a.m., it was clear Israel had already won.
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