Eilot Regional News Today

Flash flooding at World Heritage Site Timna Park in Israel’s Southern Negev Desert has led to calls from officials for tourists to exercise caution ahead of the Passover holiday.

An all-encompassing festival of the arts in remote desert Israeli communities, unencumbered by conventional ‘big city’ thinking, attracts hundreds of families to explore a new life on the country’s frontier.

This week I focus on one of my favorite parts of the desert region of our country: the southern Arava in the Eilot Regional Council.