Arava

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.

Built using eco-friendly methods. The hotel’s old rooms that should be renovated
Six Senses Shaharut.

Six Senses Shaharut offers Tu B’Av experience blending cuisine, art, and desert

Ancient textile fragment found at the Nahal Omer archaeological site in the Arava, southern Israel, by archaeologists from the University of Haifa, May 19, 2026.

Silk Road Virtual Museum opens first Israel exhibit, displays ancient textiles found in Arava

Cache of ancient ostrich eggs found at an archaeological site near Nitzana, March 29, 2026.

Collection of 7,000-year-old ostrich eggs discovered under sand dunes in southern Israel


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

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.

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.

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.

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."

Arava Power’s solar power site at Kibbutz Elifaz

Arava farmers may lose their fields in Jordan

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.

Island of Peace

How the Grateful Dead live on in Israel

The annual Dead Gathering in Israel marks a solid decade of celebrating the band.

LAST YEAR’S Dead Gathering.

Two new Negev towns approved to be built

The Ministry of Construction and Housing has tried to push for additional new communities in the south, but these were not approved by the committee on principle planning matters and were dismissed.

The Negev desert

Israeli agriculture on its way to China

Chinese farmers will gain Israeli agriculture know-how thanks to a new agreement signed today, the first day of the Agritech 2018 exhibition.

A WOMAN walks in a yard where tea leaves are dried at a tea company in Dening, Fujian Province, China, in 2016