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Top 5 Beach Destinations in Israel for Adventure and Relaxation

Adventure and Relaxation: The Best Beach Getaways in Israel

For travelers looking for the perfect mix of adventure and relaxation, Israel’s beaches offer golden sands, crystal-clear waters, and endless opportunities for water sports. Whether you want to dive into the vibrant marine life of the Red Sea or simply bask in the Mediterranean sun, Israel’s coastline has something for everyone. Here are the best beach getaways in the country.

1. Eilat: The Ultimate Red Sea Escape

Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city, is a paradise for water sports enthusiasts. Located on the shores of the Red Sea, this resort town offers world-class diving and snorkeling at Coral Beach Nature Reserve, where vibrant coral reefs and exotic marine life await. For those seeking excitement, activities like jet skiing, parasailing, and banana boat rides are available. With its warm waters and year-round sunshine, Eilat is an ideal destination for both adventure seekers and relaxation lovers.

2. Herzliya Beach: Luxury and Leisure Combined

Herzliya’s pristine beaches offer a more upscale beach experience, with high-end resorts, gourmet restaurants, and stylish beach clubs. The Marina area provides opportunities for sailing, jet skiing, and stand-up paddleboarding. Whether you want to lounge in a beachfront café or take part in water sports, Herzliya Beach is perfect for a luxurious yet laid-back beach day.

3. Gordon Beach, Tel Aviv: The Heart of Urban Beach Life

Gordon Beach is one of Tel Aviv’s most popular beaches, attracting locals and tourists alike. Located near the city’s bustling promenade, it offers volleyball courts, beachfront bars, and a lively atmosphere. Visitors can enjoy a refreshing swim in the Mediterranean, take a yoga class by the water, or simply relax under an umbrella while soaking up the sun. With its prime location and vibrant energy, Gordon Beach embodies the dynamic spirit of Tel Aviv.

4. Dor Beach: A Hidden Gem for Snorkeling

For those looking to escape the crowds, Dor Beach is a hidden gem located along Israel’s northern coast. The beach features crystal-clear waters, rocky coves, and natural lagoons, making it perfect for snorkeling and exploring marine life. The calm and shallow waters make it an excellent choice for families and nature lovers looking for a peaceful retreat.

5. Palmachim Beach: Natural Beauty and Serenity

Palmachim Beach, located south of Tel Aviv, is known for its unspoiled beauty and tranquil ambiance. Unlike the more commercialized beaches, Palmachim offers a natural, serene escape with soft sand dunes and breathtaking sunset views. It’s a favorite spot for picnics, beachcombing, and simply unwinding in nature.

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theres zero contradiction between social welfare for the citizen and brutality for the non citizen idk why people pretend there is. its great for the us to destroy any attempts to improve labour conditions in the third world bc it keeps consumer prices low for them to import. its great for the us that the rest of the world remains desperately poor and/or bombed out so they'll attempt to flee to the us and work shitty jobs on temporary visas if even that and put up with precarious labour conditions. its great for the us to have a lever on oil prices by having an outpost in the middle east to exert influence on rogue parties.

the us military isnt so big bc lockheed martin likes rentseeking and it creates a jobs it has a much bigger economic purpose: to give the us power that remains difficult to challenge – nobody can touch israel as long as the us backs it.

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Students and activists from multiple faiths are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration and lawmakers’ efforts to silence dissent on college campuses over issues like Palestinian rights — accusing officials of using allegations of antisemitism as a pretext to crush free speech and exert control over the country’s higher education system.

At a hearing Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee listened to testimony related to the rise in antisemitism in the U.S., particularly after the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. With the exception of temporary, fragile ceasefires, Israeli forces have been fighting in Gaza — and destroying infrastructure and killing civilians — ever since.

The U.S. also has seen a rise in Islamophobia since the attack, though Wednesday’s Senate hearing did not include concerns over that issue. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Republican-controlled committee’s ranking member, stressed that the panel under his leadership had held multiple hearings on hate against all faiths. He added that the mother of Wadee Alfayoumi, the 6-year-old Palestinian American boy murdered by his landlord in Illinois, attended a previous hearing.

“It was clearly a hate crime, and it was based on their religion,” Durbin said. “And the fact that that was part of the hearing did not diminish in any way my strong feelings about antisemitism. It is the same hatred that we’re trying to stamp out today.”

In the spring of 2024, protests erupted on college campuses across the country, with students and faculty of all faiths peacefully demanding that the U.S. government – the Biden administration at the time – stop supporting Israel in its destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian people.

Similar to the students who protested the Vietnam War, participants faced police brutality, far-right agitators, retaliation by their schools and mostly unfounded accusations of being antisemitic. Just Wednesday, Columbia University’s Barnard College expelled a third student for participating in pro-Palestinian activism.

“It is essential we continue working to dismantle real antisemitism while also defending our friends and community members who are falsely accused of antisemitism,” Ellie Baron, a Bryn Mawr College student who is part of this year’s graduating class, said in a statement. “The only [way]forward is through forging greater solidarity with all people who are targeted by fascism and supremacist ideologies, including antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism.”

President Donald Trump has threatened to essentially sanction universities that allow peaceful protests for Palestinian human rights, and he has even called for revoking the visas of foreign students who participate in those protests. At Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) repeatedly questioned why the government should not enact Trump’s pledge todeport foreign students who commit “an act of violence against a Jewish student.”

“Well, that’s already the law,” civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes posted on X. “So everyone with a brain knows these ‘antisemitism’ related [executive orders] aren’t about prosecuting violent crime or other illegal conduct like harassment and vandalizing property. They’re about suppressing disfavored speech and you’re smart enough to know that this is a grave violation of 1A.”

Despite Trump and his allies’ statements that they care about Jewish safety, the president’s actions have done the opposite. Trump and his billionaire friend Elon Musk are behind the layoffs of at least a dozen government officials from the Education Department’s office of civil rights, which looked into students’ complaints of discrimination — including antisemitism.

The president has a history of objectively antisemitic statements, like saying that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats “hates their religion,” and implying that Jewish Americans have dual loyalty with Israel. On his first day in office this term, Trump issued full pardons to rioters who carried out the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, including white nationalists and others who brought antisemitic symbols to the Capitol.

Musk has also come under fire for giving a Nazi-like salute during an event, openly supporting far-right German politics and saying that society should stop paying so much attention to the Holocaust.

“It is reprehensible that MAGA senators who have aligned themselves with white nationalists and antisemites like Elon Musk are putting on this hearing to crack down on the movement for Palestinian rights and for our civil liberties writ large under the guise of fighting antisemitism,” Jewish progressive group IfNotNow said Wednesday. “We refuse to let our Jewish community be the face of the Trump-Musk administration’s attacks on our rights.”

Protecting education and open dialogue is vital to “the ability of Jewish students to succeed and thrive,” Tufts University student Meirav Solomon testified at the Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Some lawmakers support adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which labels most criticism of the State of Israel as antisemitic. Civil and human rights groups – as well as the definition’s original co-author – have strongly opposed it as “overbroad” and “unconstitutional,” particularly in education spaces.

In November, a federal judge ruled that a state-level executive order threatening funding to Texas colleges and universities who don’t update campus free speech policies to include the IHRA definition of antisemitism likely violates the First Amendment.

“Distorting the meaning of antisemitism and making Jews the face of a campaign to crush free speech is deeply dangerous to Jewish Americans,” Barry Trachtenberg, presidential chair of Jewish history at Wake Forest University, said in a statement, “and all of us who work for collective liberation.”

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The media is aghast at President Trump floating an idea for Gazans to temporarily relocate to other Arab countries. Articles are filled with Palestinian fears of ethnic cleansing, of another "nakba." The broad implication is that Trump is trampling on the human rights of Palestinians by suggesting they be allowed to go elsewhere.

There is one word that the media is avoiding mentioning as much as possible: "voluntarily."

Nobody is proposing that Gazans be forced to leave Gaza if they don't want to. The idea is that they should be treated like any other people worldwide who can leave a war zone if they so desire.

As far as I see, none of the articles are mentioning this. AP notes that Egypt and Jordan already host many refugees from other conflicts, but instead of advocating that Palestinians be treated exactly the same way, it gives excuses as to why they should not. 

The New York Times has to make up facts to justify the anti-Palestinian policies of other countries:

Millions of Palestinian refugees are living in camps in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and a few other countries in the Middle East. Since the start of the war, Egypt has said that it will not take in any more Palestinian refugees, and that any attempt to force Palestinians into their territory risks agreements that it has with Israel.

There is not one camp for Palestinians outside the UNRWA camps in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. Egypt has no camps, and neither does Saudi Arabia or the UAE or Qatar or Libya or anywhere else descendants of Palestinian refugees from 1948 have moved to. The people living there are not refugees according to the definition in the Refugee Convention. and UNRWA uses doubletalk to paper over this fact. 

The media avoids mentioning that hundreds of thousands of people desperately tried to flee Gaza for safety during the war. Tens of thousands of those with the financial means paid huge bribes to Egyptian officials to become "VIPs" who were allowed to get temporary visitor visas. 

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Ultimately, America’s most powerful institutions recognize the value of Jewish life. The U.S. Congress has less tolerance for antisemitism than it does for most other varieties of bigotry. America’s political leaders more or less unanimously denounced the mass killing of Israeli civilians on October 7. And historically, they have taken even tendentious allegations of anti-Jewish discrimination seriously with many U.S. states criminalizing boycotts of Israel in the name of combating antisemitism.

By contrast, America’s elected officials are utterly insensitive to Palestinian suffering and subjugation. Even as Israel has consolidated apartheid rule in the West Bank, the U.S. has carried on supplying it with billions of dollars worth of weapons and advancing its diplomatic goals in the Middle East. Faced with the mass killing and immiseration of Palestinians in Gaza, most American officials have simply reiterated their support for Israel while (at best) making a pro forma statement about the importance of minimizing civilian casualties. House Republicans, meanwhile, introduced a bill that would bar all Palestinian refugees from the U.S. and expel any Palestinian currently in the country on a temporary visa. Titled the “Safeguarding Americans From Extremism (SAFE) Act,” the bill is explicitly premised on the idea that Palestinians are all presumptively terrorists and must therefore be kept far from our nation’s shores. It seems safe to say that any congressperson who introduced a bill targeting Israeli immigrants in this manner would be expelled from the House in short order.

Again, this does not mean that antisemitism is not a problem or not worth combating. But to the extent that bigotry is influencing American policy toward the Israel-Palestine conflict, it is not doing so at Israel’s expense.

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Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans

Former President Donald Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up people living in the United States without legal permission on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.

The plans would sharply restrict both legal and illegal immigration in a multitude of ways.

Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and reimposing a COVID-19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — although this time, he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.

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He plans to scour the country for immigrants living here without legal permission and deport people by the millions per year.

To help speed mass deportations, Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due-process hearings. To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.

To ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.

In a public reference to his plans, Trump told a crowd in Iowa in September, “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” The reference was to a 1954 campaign to round up and expel Mexican immigrants that was named for an ethnic slur — “Operation Wetback.”

The constellation of Trump’s 2025 plans amounts to an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history. Millions of immigrants living in the country without legal permission would be banned from the U.S. or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here.

Such a scale of planned removals would raise logistical, financial and diplomatic challenges and would be vigorously challenged in court. But there is no mistaking the breadth and ambition of the shift Trump is eyeing.

In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled. U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes. People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked.

Similarly, numerous people who have been allowed to live in the country temporarily for humanitarian reasons would also lose that status and be kicked out, including tens of thousands of the Afghans who were evacuated amid the 2021 Taliban takeover and allowed to enter the United States. Afghans holding special visas granted to people who helped U.S. forces would be revetted to see if they really did.

And Trump would try to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to parents living in the country without legal permission — by proclaiming that policy to be the new position of the government and by ordering agencies to cease issuing citizenship-affirming documents like Social Security cards and passports to them. That policy’s legal legitimacy, like nearly all of Trump’s plans, would be virtually certain to end up before the Supreme Court.

In interviews with The New York Times, several Trump advisers gave the most expansive and detailed description yet of Trump’s immigration agenda in a potential second term. In particular, Trump’s campaign referred questions for this article to Stephen Miller, an architect of Trump’s first-term immigration policies who remains close to him and is expected to serve in a senior role in a second administration.

All of the steps Trump advisers are preparing, Miller contended in a wide-ranging interview, rely on existing statutes; while the Trump team would likely seek a revamp of immigration laws, the plan was crafted to need no new substantive legislation. And while acknowledging that lawsuits would arise to challenge nearly every one of them, he portrayed the Trump team’s daunting array of tactics as a ���blitz” designed to overwhelm immigrant rights lawyers.

“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error. Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Miller said, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”

Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an immigration and criminal justice advocacy group that repeatedly fought the Trump administration, said the Trump team’s plans relied on “xenophobic demagoguery” that appeals to his hardest-core political base.

“Americans should understand these policy proposals are an authoritarian, often illegal, agenda that would rip apart nearly every aspect of American life — tanking the economy, violating the basic civil rights of millions of immigrants and native-born Americans alike,” Schulte said.

The Tools to Exploit

Since Trump left office, the political environment on immigration has moved in his direction. He is also more capable now of exploiting that environment if he is reelected than he was when he first won election as an outsider.

The ebbing of the COVID-19 pandemic and resumption of travel flows have helped stir a global migrant crisis, with millions of Venezuelans and Central Americans fleeing turmoil and Africans arriving in Latin American countries before continuing their journey north. Amid the record numbers of migrants at the southern border and beyond it in cities like New York and Chicago, voters are frustrated, and even some Democrats are calling for tougher action against immigrants and pressuring the White House to better manage the crisis.

Trump and his advisers see the opening and now know better how to seize it. The aides Trump relied upon in the chaotic early days of his first term were sometimes at odds and lacked experience in how to manipulate the levers of federal power. By the end of his first term, Cabinet officials and lawyers who sought to restrain some of his actions — like his Homeland Security secretary and chief of staff, John Kelly — had been fired, and those who stuck with him had learned much.

In a second term, Trump plans to install a team that will not restrain him.

Since much of Trump’s first-term immigration crackdown was tied up in the courts, the legal environment has tilted in his favor: His four years of judicial appointments left behind federal appellate courts and a Supreme Court that are far more conservative than the courts that heard challenges to his first-term policies.

The fight over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals provides an illustration.

DACA is an Obama-era program that shields from deportation and grants work permits to people who were brought unlawfully to the United States as children. Trump tried to end it, but the Supreme Court blocked him on procedural grounds in June 2020.

Miller said Trump would try again to end DACA. And the 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court that blocked the last attempt no longer exists: A few months after the DACA ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and Trump replaced her with a sixth conservative, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump’s rhetoric has more than kept up with his increasingly extreme agenda on immigration.

His stoking of fear and anger toward immigrants — pushing for a border wall and calling Mexicans rapists — fueled his 2016 takeover of the Republican Party. As president, he privately mused about developing a militarized border like Israel’s, asked whether migrants crossing the border could be shot in the legs and wanted a proposed border wall topped with flesh-piercing spikes and painted black to burn migrants’ skin.

As he has campaigned for the party’s third straight presidential nomination, his anti-immigrant tone has only grown harsher. In a recent interview with a right-wing website, Trump claimed without evidence that foreign leaders were deliberately emptying their “insane asylums” to send the patients across America’s southern border as migrants. He said migrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” And at a rally Wednesday in Florida, he compared them to the fictional serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter, saying, “That’s what’s coming into our country right now.”

Trump had similarly vowed to carry out mass deportations when running for office in 2016, but the government only managed several hundred thousand removals per year under his presidency, on par with other recent administrations. If they get another opportunity, Trump and his team are determined to achieve annual numbers in the millions.

Keeping People Out

Trump’s immigration plan is to pick up where he left off and then go much further. He would not only revive some of the policies that were criticized as draconian during his presidency, many of which the Biden White House ended, but also expand and toughen them.

One example centers on expanding first-term policies aimed at keeping people out of the country. Trump plans to suspend the nation’s refugee program and once again categorically ban visitors from troubled countries, reinstating a version of his ban on travel from several mostly Muslim-majority countries, which President Joe Biden called discriminatory and ended on his first day in office.

Trump would also use coercive diplomacy to induce other nations to help, including by making cooperation a condition of any other bilateral engagement, Miller said. For example, a second Trump administration would seek to reestablish an agreement with Mexico that asylum-seekers remain there while their claims are processed. (It is not clear that Mexico would agree; a Mexican court has said that deal violated human rights.)

Trump would also push to revive “safe third country” agreements with several nations in Central America and try to expand them to Africa, Asia and South America. Under such deals, countries agree to take would-be asylum-seekers from specific other nations and let them apply for asylum there instead.

While such arrangements have traditionally only covered migrants who had previously passed through a third country, federal law does not require that limit, and a second Trump administration would seek to make those deals without it, in part as a deterrent to migrants making what the Trump team views as illegitimate asylum claims.

At the same time, Miller said, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would invoke the public health emergency powers law known as Title 42 to again refuse to hear any asylum claims by people arriving at the southern border. The Trump administration had internally discussed that idea early in Trump’s term, but some Cabinet secretaries pushed back, arguing that there was no public health emergency that would legally justify it. The administration ultimately implemented it during the coronavirus pandemic.

Saying the idea has since gained acceptance in practice — Biden initially kept the policy — Miller said Trump would invoke Title 42, citing “severe strains of the flu, tuberculosis, scabies, other respiratory illnesses like RSV and so on, or just a general issue of mass migration being a public health threat and conveying a variety of communicable diseases.”

Trump and his aides have not yet said whether they would reenact one of the most contentious deterrents to unauthorized immigration that he pursued as president: separating children from their parents, which led to trauma among migrants and difficulties in reuniting families. When pressed, Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out reviving the policy. After an outcry over the practice, Trump ended it in 2018, and a judge later blocked the government from putting it back into effect.

Mass Deportations

Soon after Trump announced his 2024 campaign for president last November, he met with Tom Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants.

In an interview, Homan recalled that in that meeting, he “agreed to come back” in a second term and would “help to organize and run the largest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.”

Trump advisers’ vision of abrupt mass deportations would be a recipe for social and economic turmoil, disrupting the housing market and major industries including agriculture and the service sector.

Miller cast such disruption in a favorable light.

“Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers, who will now be offered higher wages with better benefits to fill these jobs,” he said. “Americans will also celebrate the fact that our nation’s laws are now being applied equally and that one select group is no longer magically exempt.”

One planned step to overcome the legal and logistical hurdles would be to significantly expand a form of fast-track deportations known as “expedited removal.” It denies immigrants living in the country without legal permission the usual hearings and opportunity to file appeals, which can take months or years — especially when people are not in custody — and has led to a large backlog. A 1996 law says people can be subject to expedited removal for up to two years after arriving, but to date, the executive branch has used it more cautiously, swiftly expelling people picked up near the border soon after crossing.

The Trump administration tried to expand the use of expedited removal, but a court blocked it, and then the Biden team canceled the expansion. It remains unclear whether the Supreme Court will rule that it is constitutional to use the law against people who have been living for a significant period in the United States and express fear of persecution if sent home.

Trump has also said he would invoke an archaic law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without due process. That law allows for summary deportation of people from countries with which the United States is at war, that have invaded the United States or that have engaged in “predatory incursions.”

The Supreme Court has upheld past uses of that law in wartime. But its text seems to require a link to the actions of a foreign government, so it is not clear whether the justices will allow a president to stretch it to encompass drug cartel activity.

More broadly, Miller said a new Trump administration would shift from the ICE practice of arresting specific people to carrying out workplace raids and other sweeps in public places aimed at arresting scores of immigrants living in the country without legal permission all at once.

To make the process of finding and deporting immigrants already living inside the country without legal permission “radically more quick and efficient,” he said, the Trump team would bring in “the right kinds of attorneys and the right kinds of policy thinkers” willing to carry out such ideas.

And because of the magnitude of arrests and deportations being contemplated, they plan to build “vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers” for immigrants as their cases progress and they wait to be flown to other countries.

Miller said the new camps would likely be built “on open land in Texas near the border.” He said the military would construct them under the authority and control of the Department of Homeland Security. While he cautioned that there were no specific blueprints yet, he said the camps would look professional and similar to other facilities for migrants that have been built near the border.

Such camps could also enable the government to speed up the pace and volume of deportations of people who have lived in the United States without legal permission for years and so are not subject to fast-track removal. If pursuing a long-shot effort to win permission to remain in the country would mean staying locked up in the interim, some may give up and voluntarily accept removal without going through the full process.

The use of these camps, he said, would likely be focused more on single adults because the government cannot indefinitely hold children under a long-standing court order known as the Flores settlement. So any families brought to the facilities would have to be moved in and out more quickly, Miller said.

The Trump administration tried to overturn the Flores settlement, but the Supreme Court did not resolve the matter before Trump’s term ended. Miller said the Trump team would try again.

To increase the number of agents available for ICE sweeps, Miller said, officials from other federal law enforcement agencies would be temporarily reassigned, and state National Guard troops and local police officers, at least from willing Republican-led states, would be deputized for immigration control efforts.

While a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the use of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes, another law called the Insurrection Act creates an exception. Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants, Miller said.

“Bottom line,” he said, “President Trump will do whatever it takes.”

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Israel's Best National Parks: Top Destinations for History, Hiking, and Scenic Views

The Ultimate Guide to National Parks in Israel

Israel is home to some of the most breathtaking national parks, offering everything from ancient ruins to stunning natural landscapes. Whether you love hiking, wildlife spotting, or historical exploration, Israel’s national parks have something for everyone. Here’s a closer look at some of the most spectacular parks to visit.

1. Masada National Park: A Fortress in the Sky

Perched atop a towering plateau in the Judean Desert, Masada is one of Israel’s most significant historical sites. This ancient fortress, built by King Herod, was the last stronghold of Jewish rebels against the Romans. Visitors can hike the Snake Path or take a cable car to the summit to explore the well-preserved ruins and take in breathtaking views of the Dead Sea. Sunrise hikes to Masada are particularly popular, offering a mesmerizing experience as the first light of day illuminates the desert landscape.

2. Ein Gedi Nature Reserve: An Oasis in the Desert

Located near the Dead Sea, Ein Gedi is a lush oasis filled with waterfalls, natural pools, and diverse wildlife. The reserve is home to the famous David’s Waterfall and a variety of hiking trails that range from easy walks to challenging climbs. Nature lovers will appreciate spotting ibexes and hyraxes along the trails. After a refreshing dip in the pools, visitors can explore the ruins of a 5th-century synagogue with a beautiful mosaic floor.

3. Caesarea National Park: Ancient Wonders by the Sea

This stunning coastal park showcases the ruins of an ancient Roman city built by King Herod. Visitors can explore the grand amphitheater, ancient aqueduct, and well-preserved port. The park also features a beautiful beach, making it a perfect combination of history and relaxation. Caesarea is also known for its underwater archaeological park, where divers can explore submerged ruins of the ancient harbor.

4. Mount Carmel National Park: A Hiker’s Paradise

For those who love hiking and nature, Mount Carmel National Park offers breathtaking trails through lush forests and dramatic cliffs. Located near Haifa, the park provides panoramic views of the Mediterranean Sea and the Galilee region. It is also home to several caves with prehistoric remains, offering insight into early human civilization. Bird watchers and nature enthusiasts will love the diverse flora and fauna found in this park.

5. Timna Park: Desert Beauty and History Combined

Timna Park, located in the Negev Desert, is a spectacular site featuring towering sandstone formations, ancient copper mines, and breathtaking desert scenery. The park’s famous rock formations, such as Solomon’s Pillars and the Mushroom Rock, make for stunning photo opportunities. Visitors can enjoy hiking, cycling, and even paddle boating on the park’s small lake, making it an ideal destination for adventure seekers and history buffs alike.

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These people need our help to raise funds to get out of Gaza, please donate if you can and even if you can only boost and share these links, it’s very appreciated.

https://gofund.me/47e018fd

“Dear all,

My name is Abood El-Hossini and I am a Palestinian engineer from the Gaza Strip. Gaza is the place I have called home for all my life; Gaza is my childhood and adulthood!

I worked for years as a biomedical engineer in the medical field passionately. I have assisted international NGOs and hospitals around the Gaza Strip, which has always felt like a positive way for me to support my community and home.

4 years ago, Leyan, the love of my life, and I started our little family. We were blessed to have our two-year-old baby boy. We had countless memories in our little sweet home in Gaza. We worked day and night to save every penny to buy our apartment, which turned into rubbles after the 7th of October as you can see in the photos. we were also forced to flee to the south, leaving everything we had built behind us under life-threatening conditions.

Words rarely fail me, but these past few weeks and months have been indescribable. The amount of tragedies and losses has been unbearable, to say the least. I think of “loss” when I think of Gaza.

We created this campaign to help us survive at this unbearable time. We lost everything including our sources of income and spent all our savings in fleeing from one place to another. My goal now is to start a new life for my family, especially my son, where he can access his basic rights and most importantly safety.

Any amount will help my family and I work towards this goal. Please share with friends, it would mean the world to us!”

https://gofund.me/6553556c

“Hi,

My name is Shaymaa, a Canadian- Palestinian woman living in Ontario Canada. I���m reaching out for support to help my family members get out of Gaza and arrive in Canada. My family has witnessed the death of more than 50 people of my cousins in front of their eyes. I have a family of 13 people (7 adults, 6 kids). The current situation with my family is as follows:

• My family lives in Gaza City and they were displaced under fire on October 13 with nothing with them.

• They have been forced to leave the city heading to the south where they have no one or nowhere to stay.

• My family had their homes completely bombed and destroyed.

• My family has a family business, such as olive pressing mills. They have three locations; all of the three locations have been destroyed completely; so, they exhaustively lost their income resource.

• Now, they have no homes and no work. They are on the street under fire and bombardments.

• No place is safe in the Gaza Strip. They hardly find access to food. The drinking water does not exist, so they are forced to consume the non-dirking water.

• All my nieces and nephews are suffering from several diseases related to pollution, and lack of water and food. At the same time, they don’t have any access to the health care system as the system is destroyed.

• The kids have no schools because the schools are all destroyed.

After months of pleas from Canadians with extended family members in the war zone, Immigration Canadian Minister Marc Miller announced the new temporary visa program for people in the Gaza Strip who have Canadian relatives. Miller called the situation in Gaza “unlivable,” he expects to have a temporary visa program up and running by Jan. 9, 2024. He underscored the challenges of getting out of the besieged Palestinian territory. Mr. Miller said that Canada has no guarantees from Israel, Hamas, or Egypt that extended family members on Canada's list will be able to leave.

Moreover, the Canadian Government will not have any financial assistance for evacuees or their families in Canada. It means that my family will have to pay all the travel expenses, in addition to the settlement in Canada on their own.

The expenses of travel mean:

• Application fee for 13 people

• Expenses of leaving Gaza in case Canada will not be able to put the names on the evacuation list of Rafah crossing. The people in Gaza have been asked to pay $7000 per person regardless the age, to be allowed out of Gaza.

• The stay in Cairo for 3-4 weeks waiting for the paperwork.

• Flight tickets for 13 people from Cairo to Canada.

The settlement expenses (for the first 2 months till they find jobs) means:

• Rent

• Furniture

• Winter gear to adapt to the weather

• Health coverage

• Living cost

The situation, the danger, and the hardship are beyond any anticipation. Time is extremely sensitive, which means that time costs blood and lives.

Thank you for your openness to hearing about the situation of my family and me. Palestinian voices are often silenced, making it challenging to raise awareness about our situation and seek support. A safe, supportive, judgment-free community is vital for us.

At this moment; and on behave of my family, I am sincerely and deeply asking all kind people to help them get out of the most dangerous place in the world and start a new life. In the Book of Life, we all play different roles. Your role in supporting my family could be the turning point. Will you help them write a brighter chapter?

Thank you again for your support and understanding during this challenging time. Your contribution means a new life for my family. Also, it means compassion and solidarity for justice and preserving human lives.

Keen gratitude,

Shaymaa”

https://gofund.me/3f6f858a

“Hi,

My name is Mohammed Alhendi , I live in Belgium

Due to his geographical location and restrictions from GoFundMe I am stepping in to help launch this campaign. All donations will go directly to Abood.

Here is Abood story :

Hello, I'm Abdul Rahman Batah "Abood", I live in a small neighborhood in Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza, known as the "Youngest Journalist in the World."

I used to live in a house filled with love and hope, until the recent war came and destroyed everything. Our house, which my father built with great effort, was completely destroyed. We lost not only our home, but also our source of livelihood, our cultivated land, our only car, and even my small project that I relied on to make a living, which was a hot drinks selling business.

‏Our house was not just a house, but a residential building for the family consisting of 4 floors, accommodating more than 30 people. Each floor housed family members and filled them with warmth and love.

‏Those days were filled with pain and sorrow, but I decided not to give in to despair. Instead, I decided to share with people in northern Gaza by filming funny videos about the destruction, but behind the smile, my heart was sad for all that we lost.

‏But I didn't give up, I wanted to rebuild anew, with your support and solidarity. I launched this campaign to regain hope for myself and my family. Let's rebuild our house, replant our land, buy a new car to regain our freedom of movement, and rebuild my small project to sell hot drinks to live with dignity and earn my livelihood.

‏Please, join me in this journey, as every drop of contribution renews hope in my heart and brings life back to my shattered land. Contribute whatever you can, and share the story so we can reach our goal together.

To Stay Connected:

Follow my journey on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/abod_bt77

for regular updates and a closer look at the progress we make together. Let's rebuild hope, one brick at a time.

‏Thank you from the bottom of my heart“

[mariacallous]

On November 30, Finland completely closed its border with Russia, attributing the decision to the sharp increase in the flow of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Some of the refugees planning to request asylum in Finland were detained in Russia’s Karelia and Murmansk regions and placed in temporary detention centers for foreigners. Another 200 people, according to the Murmansk regional authorities, were sent on buses to St. Petersburg in late November. The majority of the refugees may be deported from Russia. The St. Petersburg outlet Bumaga spoke with a Syrian man, who is facing deportation back to his home country, to learn why he and hundreds of other refugees are trying to enter Finland through Russia, despite the challenging relationship between Russia and the E.U. since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With Bumaga’s permission, Meduza is publishing the text in full.

On attempting to reach Finland

I’m from Syria. I’m 28 years old. I studied engineering for six years in Damascus, graduating from one of the best universities in the country. But the war in Syria isn’t easing up, and Israel is constantly attacking. I decided to leave home to search for work.

Two and a half months ago, I got to Russia on a tourist visa. But the laws in Russia are strict, there’s no asylum here. [In November,] I decided to travel to Finland, to look for work in Europe. I just want to work so I can help my family.

At first, I reached St. Petersburg from Moscow. Then, I paid an Asian man $100 and travelled with him to the Salla border crossing [in the Murmansk region.] No one sent me to this driver, I found him myself.

But 200 kilometers (around 124 miles) from the border crossing, Russian security officials stopped us and told us we have to turn back because the crossing was closed. I’ll tell you the truth: the security officials treated us with respect and said they didn’t want us to put ourselves at risk. It was very cold there, we could’ve died in the freezing cold. The Russian police worried about us, when we weren’t worried for ourselves.

When I was going back, the driver said the Russian security forces gave us $200 to return [to St. Petersburg]. We didn’t reach Finland and spent over 20 hours in the car — it was exhausting.

I believe that Finland’s statements [that Russia is artificially creating a migrant crisis] aren’t accurate. After all, the security officers stopped me. But I think that if I insisted on driving further toward Finland, then the Russian police and army would have let me.

If the flow of migrants from Russia had a negative influence on Europe, then Russia would’ve been forcing people to enter Europe by the thousands, but it’s not doing that. There’s a political formula that we wouldn’t understand. This state politics, we don’t know where we’ll end up. We’re the victims of the political relationship between Europe and Russia. But Europe is driving us out.

On deportation and Syria

After the border, I went to Moscow, went to a migration service and said that I wanted to leave. The problem is that my tourist visa expired two weeks ago. And I understood: if the police catch me, I’ll be arrested and sent to a deportation center.

When I was summoned to the [Gagarinsky District] Court [on November 27], I told the judge: “I need time to be able to leave Russia.” But I didn’t say where I was planning to go. I was given a notice to leave the country in 15 days. I have now appealed the decision and am waiting for the court’s response. After all, I’m an educated person and I know how this all works legally.

If Russia lets me, I’ll stay here. Though when I asked my lawyer about applying for asylum in Russia, he told me it’s impossible. So I never figured out how to apply and where to go.

If I’m deported to Syria, then I’ll lose my life and my family. My family lives in Damascus. Father, mother, and siblings.

If I return to my country, then I won’t be able to work, because I’ll go to the army and I’ll earn $20 per month. I won’t even have enough money for clothing, I won’t be able to get married and have a family. I have to help my parents and siblings, send them money for education. The situation in Syria is worse than you can imagine.

In Syria, a visa costs a person the price of their house. If they have a house…So you can imagine how hard it is [to get a visa to Russia].

The people who send out invitations [for visas] are Arabs who live here [in Russia]. They’re taking advantage of the people in Syria. Most of those who talk about wanting to “help” just want money. Arabs living in Russia exploit people from Syria and other countries, forcing them to pay for accommodations and translation [of documents into Russian]. They charge over $600 for filing an asylum application. You know, humanity buried itself a long time ago and there’s nothing left of it.

On the reason refugees went to the Finnish border

I didn’t try going to Belarus. My friends who’ve been there said that it’s a catastrophic situation, that people can’t enter Poland and Latvia and that the Belarusian army sends them back to the border with Russia. I don’t think that Belarus will put up with the influx of migrants and refugees.

I know someone who went missing for 15 days. Believe it or not, he came from Saudi Arabia, traveled to Latvia, and lost contact. Then, someone found him in the forest in Belarus. The problem is that Latvian border guards sometimes beat refugees, electrocute them, and break their phones [Bumaga notes that torture by the Latvian authorities has been confirmed by Amnesty International’s report]. Then, refugees are dumped into the forest in the direction of Belarus where they’re lost for several days because they don’t have phones. You can only find your way out with the help of a map.

The Belarusian government doesn’t allow refugees into the forest, and the police catch them. But this is hindered by smugglers who can transport people through the forests to Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. But actually, when people enter the forest, that’s when the suffering begins.

That’s exactly why some refugees went to the Russia-Finland border. They thought that it’d be easier and safer to apply for asylum there than in Belarus.

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In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled. U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes. People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked.

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Pence Urges Reps to Block RFK Jr.’s HHS Nomination. China willing to be friends with US. Israel hit Iran's nuke weapons research site. Argentina Exits UN Climate Summit. Google AI: Human...Please Die

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New Majority Leader John Thune Signals Senate RINOs Will Block Trump’s Cabinet Picks

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is signaling that Republican-in-name-only (RINO) lawmakers in the upper house will likely seek to block the confirmation of impactful Cabinet nominees such as Matt Gaetz and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Speaking to Bret Baier on Thursday, Thune—who pushed for Trump to drop out of the 2016 election in favor of Mike Pence—said: “None of this is gonna be easy.”

While claiming “President Trump had a huge mandate from the American people” and “I always believe that you defer to a president when it comes to the people they want in their Cabinet,” Thune stressed that “obviously there is a process whereby we get down and scrub all these nominees and figure out whether or not, one, are they qualified and are they people fit to hold these offices.” He said an ethics report on Gaetz, nominated for Attorney General, will likely end up “out there” at some point.

Choice of globalist water boy John Thune as Senate Majority Leader proves yet again how little power the elected President of United States actually has

Barely a week after Trump wins landslide victory and a seemingly impressive mandate, globalist neocons pick a Mitch McConnell clone as the new Senate Majority Leader.

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Choice of globalist water boy John Thune as Senate Majority Leader proves yet again how little power the elected President of United States actually has

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Turncoat Pence Calls on Senate to Block RFK Jr.’s HHS Nomination

Former Vice President Mike Pence has urged Senate Republicans to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Mike Pence, who famously turned his back on Trump after serving under him during his first term, has now released a scathing statement on Kennedy’s nomination. Pence, in an ironic twist, called it “deeply concerning” and labeled it a “betrayal” of the pro-life values their administration once stood for. On Thursday, President Trump announced his decision to appoint Kennedy to the pivotal role, citing a need for reform in the way public health is managed in the United States.

Biden’s DHS Sec Mayorkas Is Drastically Lifting Visa Caps on His Way Out

The Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is announcing a drastic increase in the H-2B Visa cap for the Fiscal Year 2025. H-2B visas are granted to temporary non-agricultural immigrant workers.

In an announcement by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday, the department says it expects to make available an additional 64,716 visas on top of the current cap for the next year. According to the department, the increase is necessary to meet the demands of American companies specifically operating in the “hospitality and tourism, landscaping, [and] seafood processing” industries. The National Pulse has reported extensively on the replacement of native-born American workers with cheap foreign labor under the Biden-Harris government, and the DHS visa cap announcement is set to exacerbate the problem.

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okay i’ve actually got one more argument left in me.

the canadian journalism podcast Canadaland has been iffy since the assault on gaza started (their founder is extremely defensive about being zionist-leaning) but the rest of the editorial team has continued being journalists investigating canadian policies, and this week they put out a good show about canada’s federal program to expedite temporary visas for gazans (the same program that’s brought in 200,000 ukrainians to escape the war)

the most damning thing in that episode IMO is that the canadian government has sent the israeli government a list of people proven eligible for the program, and israel has let none of them leave. zero. and that makes it very, very clear that this is not a valid military operation. they aren’t hunting down criminals, they’re trapping people—even people who have already been investigated and approved by ally governments—and not only refusing to let them leave, but continuing to bomb them. that fact alone is what makes this a genocide: innocent people are being killed on purpose because of where they were born. israel’s restriction of the movements of palestinians is also what makes this a genocide. we say “free palestine” because even proven innocents do not have the freedom to emigrate unless they ask the military actively killing them for permission to go.

during the canadaland episode they interview a palestinian woman in toronto who had immigrated with most of her family long before october 7th, and had been waiting since 2019 for her daughter with cerebral palsy to finally be approved (canada’s explicitly eugenicist immigration laws make it hard for people with disabilities to enter). in january of this year her daughter starved to death because israel has strangled all attempts at humanitarian aid.

these are facts reported and corroborated by canadian journalists with no connection to palestine. the illegal killing of palestinians is a fact. so you’ll understand why i feel fucking insane when people like marcus gee of the globe and mail say that the only reason people talk about these facts is because of anti-semitism. i’m not disputing the existence of anti-semitism, i’m not saying anything about anti-semitism, i’m calling for an end to an illegal military occupation killing thousands of people and i’m calling for my government to uphold its own standards regarding human rights and the actions of belligerent states. i’m asking for an arms embargo, for economic sanctions, and for humanitarian aid. and if somehow you disagree with me on this, you can keep that shit to yourself because i can’t and won’t understand how you can argue against the basic premise of “people deserve to live”.

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New Zealand Immigration's Response to the Israel-Hamas Conflict

New Zealand's Compassionate Immigration Response to the Israel-Hamas Conflict

     Date: 10 July 2024 New Zealand is deeply concerned about the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, and Immigration New Zealand (INZ) understands the challenges and stress this situation brings to many individuals. They have implemented several measures to assist those affected by the conflict and ensure consistent and prioritised processing of applications from the impacted regions. Refugee Quota New Zealand supports international refugee situations primarily through its Refugee Quota program. The country accepts 1,500 refugees annually under this program. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refers refugees to INZ, ensuring that those most in need receive protection and resettlement opportunities. This program demonstrates New Zealand's commitment to providing sanctuary to those fleeing persecution and conflict. Measures Implemented by INZ In response to the Israel-Hamas conflict, INZ has put several processes in place to ensure fair and expedited handling of visa applications from affected individuals. These include: Centralized Processing: All visitor visa applications from Palestinian and Israeli passport holders are processed in the same office to ease visa processing. Prioritization Requests: INZ has established a dedicated mailbox for applicants to request prioritization of their visa applications, ensuring urgent cases receive prompt attention. Consular Assistance: The New Zealand Embassy in Cairo supports New Zealand citizens and residents attempting to leave Gaza. To date, 26 New Zealand citizens and permanent residents have assisted in leaving Gaza. Exit Permits for Palestinians Currently, only Palestinians who are also citizens of a third country, along with their immediate family members (dependent children and partners), are being granted exit permits to leave Gaza. The New Zealand Embassy in Cairo continues to advocate with Israeli and Egyptian authorities to secure permission for valid New Zealand visa holders to exit Gaza. Visa Statistics Since the conflict began on 7 October 2023, INZ has received a significant number of visa applications from both Israeli and Palestinian nationals: Israeli Nationals: 542 applications (both temporary and residence visas) have been received. Of these, 434 have been approved, 18 declined, and the remaining are either in progress or have been withdrawn. Palestinian Nationals: We have received 127 applications (both temporary and residence visas). Of these, 71 are approved, 26 declined, and the remaining are either in progress or have been withdrawn. Among the approved applications, 116 Israeli nationals and 20 Palestinians have arrived in New Zealand. This includes various visa types, reflecting New Zealand's commitment to providing a haven for those affected by the conflict. Visa Waiver for Israeli Nationals Israel is a visa waiver country for New Zealand, meaning Israeli citizens do not need to apply for a Visitor Visa for short stays. Instead, they require a New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority (NZeTA). The NZeTA allows for a streamlined entry process, facilitating more straightforward and quicker travel arrangements for Israeli visitors. Conclusion INZ remains committed to supporting individuals impacted by the Israel-Hamas conflict through efficient and compassionate immigration processes. The steps taken reflect New Zealand's broader commitment to humanitarian support and international cooperation in times of crisis. About ICL Immigration ICL Immigration, based in Auckland, is an established licensed immigration adviser with over 20 years of experience and a remarkable 97% approval rate. We've helped over 1,000 immigrants realise their New Zealand settlement dreams. We specialise in a broad spectrum of visa services, including work, residency, student visas, and business-related services like employer accreditation, ensuring personalised solutions for individuals and businesses aiming to navigate New Zealand’s immigration landscape successfully. Read the full article