Before making Aliyah, I could not have understood the vast differences between life in the “old country” and our new home in Israel. I knew that living in Israel meant we’d have the “feeling we're not in Kansas anymore”, but after 16 years, I keep on seeing more and more differences that I [...]
Anyone visiting Ashkelon over the short winter months will notice thousands of deciduous trees, with dried out bean pods, empty of almost all leaves. But by springtime, they explode in a blaze of color. With thousands of Flamboyant trees in Ashkelon, they transform the city into a color-filled landscape that is unique to Ashkelon. [...]
One of the things that we enjoy so much about living in Ashkelon is the amount of wildlife we see. Ashkelon is so full of green spaces that there are plenty of places for them to live in. We often see mongooses crossing the streets to get to their habitat and even the occasional [...]
Running through the heart of Afridar is a very large park that is called the "Desha HaGadol", which literally means the "great lawn". We have not seen an English translation that really describes this wonderful urban park that forms the center of Afridar. Whatever it is called, the Desha HaGadol is quite unique for [...]
At the top of the Desha HaGadol is a sundial garden, made up of difference sculptures by the Israeli artist Yigal Tumarkin, using the sundial theme. While the large sundial at the seaside has demarcations in order to tell the time, these sundials are mainly abstract in nature. While they are fascinating to look [...]
