Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi
What saved Kibbutz Tirat Zvi – and especially its children – from General Fawzi al- Qawuqji’s Arab Salvation Army in the months before the declaration of the State of Israel? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? War...
Tamar HaYardeni
Doctoral student in Bar-Ilan University’s Land of Israel and Archaeology Department. Author and tour guide
Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Gesher
Three bridges, one Arab village, three Jewish settlements, a railway station, and a hydroelectric plant. How did a single bend in the River Jordan generate so much activity? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Kibbutz GesherRestored site...
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...
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...
Sky-Heist – Aircraft Smuggling
In a daring smuggling operation right out of Hollywood, four bombers arrived in Israel just in time to make a crucial contribution to its War of Independence. There was even a script featuring a seasoned...
Cast a Giant Shadow – Akra Fortress
The giant Akra fortress and its garrison of Hellenist soldiers sowed fear among Jerusalem’s Jewish residents well after Hasmonean victories had brought autonomy to Judea. Maybe that’s why this stronghold was razed when the Maccabees...
Tale of a Trail | Eilat Port
Six years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage anchored offshore. What happened to those priceless manuscripts? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Eilat PortIsrael’s southernmost port...
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...
