Off the Beaten Path: A Hiking Tour in Israel and Palestine

If not for Covid-19, we would have been hiking the West Bank in March. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/11/hiking-west-bank-israeli-settlements-checkpoints-palestinians?fbclid=IwAR3p8IoXmvav4TZFgAUrPSFp71qtAUnEMiHC7TpCn_Rj0yNkxzVkCw1T-kg

Hiking in the West Bank is bittersweet because its beauty threatened by Israel | Jalal Abukhater Israeli settlements and checkpoints are encroaching on the only escape from harsh reality available to Palestinians, says Jerusalem writer Jalal Abukhater

An interesting article by Geraldine Brooks (author of the very fine novel People of the Book). Smithsonian is available at my local public library (paper or via RB Digital e-magazine).

How to make kunafa cups Sura and Nuha al-Qassab explain how to bake kunafa, a dessert popular across Palestine, Syria and elsewhere.

If you want to taste a Nablus specialty, Knafeh, before getting the real thing, try this recipe. On March 8, 2020, we'll be stopping at a knafeh shop during our walking tour of Nablus's Old City.

How to make kunafa cups Sura and Nuha al-Qassab explain how to bake kunafa, a dessert popular across Palestine, Syria and elsewhere.

We now have 6 registrants. That means there are 10 spots left for March 2020. Watch this space for more interesting bits of information about the itinerary.

For those interested in Israeli election tomorrow, an easy way to connect with the news is to "Like" the HaAretz page. HaAretz is one of Israel's leading newspapers in English.

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Five registrations have been sent in. We need only eleven more.