April 2021

April 23, 2021 Independence Day: Forks, flypasts and the joy of being Israeli By Barbara Sofer The smooth sand warms my bare soles on the long expanse of Ashdod’s Eleventh Neighborhood Beach. No sign of the recent tar pollution. Israel’s southern beaches were less badly hit than the northern, but not a tar clump remains, […]

April 9, 2021 73+1 reasons why I love Israel – Opinion By Barbara Sofer Yes, there are imitations, but here is the original Jerusalem Post 17th straight year of new “Reasons I love Israel,” even though 2020 was a year of challenges. Rappelling, spelunking and droning: Archaeologists rappelled into Dead Sea caves and recently found