Who ever said that there’s no nightlife in Jerusalem?
When it comes to pubs and clubs, Tel Aviv surely has the edge by a long way. Israel’s Sin City is also more bike-friendly with its tree-lined cycle paths and flat topography, but anyone bold enough to take to Jerusalem’s streets at night on two wheels has [...]

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It was bound to happen, sooner or later.  After the kibbutz - the classic Israeli collective community where members shared everything - urban car sharing services were only a hop, skip, and a car engine purr away.
Thanks to new Israeli company, Car2go, the concept of car sharing (which has already enjoyed great success all over [...]

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As the Green Prophet archives will tell you, Israel is no stranger to environmentally friendly tourism.  Not only is there a variety of ecologically minded guesthouses all of the country (including a vegetarian paradise in the Galilee), but the Israeli Ministry of Tourism has announced that it is going green.  Part of this initiative has [...]

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While the subject of air travel has become a hot topic this week, it’s worth remembering that it’s not just people that travel by jumbo jet – lots of the food eaten in Western countries is flown across the globe before it reaches our plates.
Israel is in a unique position globally in that it produces [...]

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Hot on the heels (or should that be, ‘wheels’) of the news that bicycle use is on the rise in Tel Aviv, the municipality in Israel’s second city has just announced that it is launching a ‘pay and ride’ bike rental system.Last week, Green Prophet reported that bike use in the city shot up by [...]

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