Check out my article on how the planned extension of the security barrier into the Judean Desert will affect the landscape and ecology there. Here’s an issue that Gershom and I differ on and I’ll write more about the issue here later this week.
Niot Watzman, in memoriam נאות ויצמן ז”ל |
English | עברית | נאות באתר יזכור של צה"ל |
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