Tale of a Trail | Heletz
The dream of discovering a wealth of natural resources beneath the soil of the land of Israel is as old as the state itself. What actually happened when this dream briefly came true and hope...
Tamar HaYardeni
Doctoral student in Bar-Ilan University’s Land of Israel and Archaeology Department. Author and tour guide
Tale of a Trail | Allenby Square Jerusalem
The sick man on the Bosphorus had lost his grip on Jerusalem, but to whom exactly did he surrender? Parades, ceremonies, and monuments marking the conquest of Israel’s future capital. Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Allenby...
Place in the Sun – Moshe Shapira
Autodidact Moshe Shapira emerged from Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Me’a She’arim as an expert in both astronomy and sundials. Two of his sun clocks can still be seen in Jerusalem, but it was the one he refused...
Tale of a Trail | Kfar Hasidim
Who exactly were the Hasidic devotees who gave Kfar Hasidim its name? What led them to leave Poland and settle beside the secular Zionist farmers of Nahalal? A Hasidic tale from the Zebulun Valley Tamar...
Tale of a Trail | The Underground Prisoners’ Museum
“Bevingrad” was the highest-security British prison in the Middle East, but that didn’t stop Jewish paramilitaries from lying through their teeth and crawling through its sewers in a daring escape Tamar HaYardeni Where To? The...
Tale of a Trail | Hattin National Park
The Crusaders lost the Battle of Hattin not because they were fewer, weaker, or less fierce than Saladin’s army. Ill-prepared for the climate and terrain, they were just too thirsty to fight Tamar HaYardeni Where...
The Kaiser’s Cap – Tiferet Israel
Fact and fiction intertwine in the tale of Jerusalem’s historic Tiferet Israel Synagogue, which tipped its hat to Austria’s Kaiser Franz Joseph Tamar HaYardeni For the Middle East, 1869 was a critical year: after much...
