If you don’t know what a yurt is, have no fear.  Most people don’t (including yours truly).  But yurts, with their portability, suitability for nature trips, and simple low-tech structures are highly suitable for eco-tourism - so they definitely deserve our attention.  And it certainly is exciting that yurts are entering the Israeli tourism scene.
So [...]

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Green Ps (that’s a new abbreviation we made up today), are of the notion that only people who are housed, employed, healthy and happy can take on extras like yoga classes and only then start worrying about issues such as climate change and the environment.
That’s why we were happy to see that the [...]

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A few weeks ago, we were driving our “tourist” mom from Canada around the country, when we accidentally took the wrong cut-off and found ourselves somewhere in the middle of east Jerusalem.
Excited by seeing the children riding around on donkeys and the general sense of choas, Mom commented on how very different this place seemed [...]

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