Arava

Grateful Dead Gathering brings mini-Woodstock to Arava oasis for three-day festival

A mini-Woodstock event is slated for September 17-19 in the Arava as a gathering for the Grateful Dead to hit the desert.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE HARDEST DAZE perform the music of The Grateful Dead. (Dead Gathering)
Soldiers from the IDF's 7th Armored Brigade operating in the Gaza Strip, January 14, 2026; illustrative.

IDF officer moderately injured in friendly fire accident at military engineering school

The officer was evacuated to receive medical attention at the hospital, and his family was notified.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Alongside its toxicity, the oil created a hard, impermeable layer on the ground. The Avrona oil spill disaster.

12 years after the oil spill: What is happening in the Avrona Nature Reserve now?

Following Israel's massive 2014 EAPC oil spill, complex rehabilitation begins at Avrona Nature Reserve, evacuating 30,000 tons of contaminated soil.

|ByZIV REINSTEIN
Built using eco-friendly methods. The hotel’s old rooms that should be renovated

Half an hour from Eilat, but light-years away: We found wonderful sanity in the desert

Kibbutz Lotan offers a different kind of vacation, featuring a relatively new Travel Hotel, an Eco-Fun complex, nature tours, and a single card that aggregates dozens of regional experiences.

|ByZIV REINSTEIN

Arava film fest to screen ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ best new films

OCTOBER 30, 2019ByHANNAH BROWN
‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif.

3 children, including 2 French olim, killed in car accidents in Israel

Sisters Shirel and Mila Ben-Simon, who had made aliyah with their family from France three months ago, died in a collision on Route 90 the Arava on Thursday. They were four and seven.

JUNE 6, 2019ByALON EINHORN, ALON HACHMON
Remnants of a car involved in a car accident in the Arava where two children died

Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard spotted in Israel's South

The endangered species is native to the region and is harmless to humans, eating only leaves and vegetation.

MAY 28, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard in the South.

Festival review: Half a thousand strong at Israel’s Woodstock

Almost Cut My Hair: Celebrating 50 years since Woodstock * Camel Bar Camping, Arava * April 3-5

APRIL 8, 2019ByDAVID BRINN
The welcoming banner to the 'Almost Cut My Hair' festival

Week of events in Israeli desert celebrates nature

"24/Nature" event held in memory of Prof. Amotz Zehavi, reknowned zoologist.

MARCH 4, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A laughingthrush lands on a birdwatcher's binoculars.

Diplomatic Affairs: The anti-terrorism price tag

Clean water and Israeli-Palestinian coexistence efforts become collateral damage of new Trump administration legislation.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
STUDENTS AT the USAID-funded Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, located on Kibbutz Ketura, use the desert as their classroom

An Israeli festival dedicated to the Arava's dates

The festival, from November 8 to 10, will include activities for the whole family.

NOVEMBER 4, 2018ByMEITAL SHARABI
SCALE A climbing wall at the Kibbutz Elifaz happening.

Israel farmers under threat from government's import policies

"The citizens of Israel will eat zucchini from Turkey and the West Bank and the Israeli zucchini that we grow here on Israeli earth and in the Arava will be thrown in the garbage."

NOVEMBER 1, 2018ByDENNIS ZINN, CASSANDRA GOMES-HOCHBERG
Arava Power’s solar power site at Kibbutz Elifaz

Arava farmers may lose their fields in Jordan

OCTOBER 25, 2018ByDENNIS ZINN
Growing Dates in the Arava Desert

Jordan says chose not be flexible with Israel after cancels treaty annexes

On the anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Abdullah announced his intention to cancel the annexes to the peace agreement with Israel.

OCTOBER 22, 2018ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Island of Peace