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Ecologist recommends hitting southern deserts for a colorful display in mid-May, with rainfall there three times last year's quantity

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994 was awarded jointly to , and "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games".

Ecologist Avi Shmida says weather conditions led to some profuse blooming, though early bloomers and those in the desert were subpar; climate analyst: Coldest March since 1953

The average temperatures for January through March combined were the coldest since 1993 - Click the link for more details.

Get email notification for articles from Moshe Gilad Follow Jun. 1, 2021 1:40 PM The preparations went on for years. Every drive along Highway 4 to Ra’anana afforded quick glimpses of the fortress-like compound. Every visit to friends in Herzliya included vital intelligence-gathering about fences, barricades and observation points. I tried not to look straight into the security cameras affixed to the electricity poles there. On other days, as I walked alongside the fence that surrounds the I...

The Nazareth Iris. (Yuval Sapir) There are irises and then there are royal irises, majestically capacious flowers dramatically blooming now from the north to the south of Israel, putting on one of the biggest and most dramatic shows of wild horticulture in the entire Eastern Mediterranean. The iris, which blooms in many colors, and sometimes carries several colors on the same flower, is thought to have taken its name from the Greek goddess of the rainbow. In Israel there are thought to be 18 s...