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A small boutique chocolate factory on Kibbutz Ein Zivan in the Golan Heights, run by an Argentinian-born chocolatier. Discussed here as part of a less-trodden route through northern Israel.

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Hiking up the Ein Tina stream in the Golan Heights with the assistance of some helpful hand railings
North · Galilee

Going off the beaten path in northern Israel

A two-day road trip through the Galilee Panhandle and the Golan Heights: the Hunin Crusader fortress, a sealed Hezbollah tunnel near the Lebanon border, the Roman temples at Hurvat Omrit, the Hexagon Pool, and a Yom Kippur War memorial at Tel Saki.

Sep 2021 · 5 minute read
A spelt snack at the Pitputim Bakery in Rosh Pina Clambering through the Yiftach Crevices in Israel's Upper Galilee with the help of iron handholds The Hunin Crusader Fortress Memorial to the South Lebanon Army on the Israel/Lebanon border The blocked-up entrance to a tunnel that Hizbollah dug under the Israel-Lebanon border (the border is in the background) with the objective of conducting terror attacks within Israel. A stream flows through Hurshat Tal National Park in the Hula Valley Ruins of three Roman temples at Hurvat Omrit in the Golan Heights A sizzling steak at HaBokrim restaurant in Merom Golan Nachal Meshusim (the Hexagon stream) flows through the Golan Heights Remarkable geological formations at the Hexagon Pool in the Golan Heights Hiking up the Ein Tina stream in the Golan Heights with the assistance of some helpful hand railings The memorial at Tel Saki in the Golan Heights to Israeli soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War De Karina chocolatier in Ein Zivan, the Golan Heights
View looking out westwards from Mt Hermon
North · Golan Heights & Hermon

Hiking to the top of Israel: Mt Hermon

Hiking the 2,040m peak of Mt Hermon on Israel's northern border in the middle of summer: the heat, the army permission, the views from above the clouds, and the berry picking on the way home.

Oct 2020 · 7 minute read
View looking out westwards from Mt Hermon View from the peak of the Hermon Mountain Looking out over the border between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights from Mt Hermon. The symbolic beginning of the Israel Trail Blackberry picking the Bereishit orchard in the Golan Heights. A chocolate milkshake in the De Karina chocolate factory in Ein Zivan.
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