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Tiberias (Tiveria in Hebrew) is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Tiberias was built in about 20 A.D. by Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great on the site of the destroyed village of Rakkat, and it became the capital of his realm in Galilee. It was named in honor of Antipas' patron, the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Today, Tiberias is Israel's most popular holiday resort in the northern part of the country. And contains the gravesites of the most holy of ancient Jewish rabbis,...
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Many have stated that the next Middle East war will be over water. As the dry months of summer sweep through the Middle East, Israel is faced with its worst water crisis ever. The water levels in Israel's three main water sources - the Sea of Galilee, the Coastal Aquifer and the Mountain Aquifer - have now receded to the lowest levels in recorded history. All three have already dropped below the red line - the line at which it is recommended to stop pumping from the water source. Faced with...
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Israel Shines - In the area of present-day Israel, vineyards have been cultivated for thousands of years, but it wasn't until new investments in the 1980s that Israel's wines began showing their true commercial potential. Join Kim Marcus as he tastes two of his favorites.
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Winner of the audience award at the Jewish Film Festival in Berlin, this astonishingly moving film depicts a group of elderly kibbutz inhabitants who wake up one morning to find that everyone else has abandoned them. It seems their beloved kibbutz is broke, and with it their old-fashioned dreams for a meaningful, cooperative future end. Rapacious Yuppie developers are salivating over the land, which they want to transform into a disco-gambling complex a la Las Vegas. The 12 self-styled...
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How cool is this? On certain days of the year, their is a wind circulation called the "Kinneret Effect" which makes for great para-gliding around the Sea of Galilee (known in Hebrew as the "Kinneret"). Paraglide Israel is holy fun!
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