Southern Israel was filled with blood and death, and brilliant red wildflowers now bloom among the ashes | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
REIM, Israel -- Each year as spring approaches, wildflowers erupt across Israel, a splash of color before the punishing Middle Eastern summer. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to be covered in red carpets.