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Nature | 04.12.23

There’s a Little Lamb in the Pen

There’s a Little Lamb in the Pen

Our pen is a place of simple hope and small joys, particularly now, during the lambing and kidding season. Each guided tour currently ends at the goat and sheep pen, and we also benefit from the sparkle in the visitors’ eyes. We’ve chosen t...

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Community | 06.08.23

Residents Who Rush to Count Trees

Residents Who Rush to Count Trees

When tree-loving residents, a caring local council, and Ramat Hanadiv collaborate – good things happen that improve the quality of life and enhance the urban forest. All about the tree-mapping project in Zichron Ya’akov that led to the plan...

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Sustainbility | 21.02.23

Goat in the Bath

Goat in the Bath

When we think about soap we think about whiteness and cleanliness, the wonderful smell of an indulging bath, tranquillity, and tenderness. When we think about a goat pen we think of droppings and noise, udders and milk, boots and plants W...

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Nature | 08.02.23

Being Part of the Herd

Being Part of the Herd

He arrives at Ramat Hanadiv before dawn. He gives the goats nicknames, is present at most of the births in the goat pen and even has a ‘duty goat’. Nice to meet you – Najah Halabi

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Sustainbility | 16.11.22

Choices to Help You Break the Disposable Habit

Choices to Help You Break the Disposable Habit

How do we encourage people to use reusables instead of disposables? How do we create a meaningful campaign without preaching? How do we this while considering our visitors who just want to sit down and have a picnic? And how do we leave foo...

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Sustainbility | 10.11.22

Choices in the Garden

Choices in the Garden

Memorial Garden? Botanic Garden? Public Park? The choices that make Ramat Hanadiv so special

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Sustainbility | 19.09.22

When We Began Charging for Parking – or, On Vultures, Kestrels and Gazelles

When We Began Charging for Parking – or, On Vultures, Kestrels and Gazelles

Last September was the first time that visitors to Ramat Hanadiv paid for parking; this step was accompanied by countless meetings and a long, strategic process that culminated in updating and informing our future visitors, neighbouring set...

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Sustainbility | 13.09.22

Starting Clean OR When We Began Redesigning the InfoShop

Starting Clean OR When We Began Redesigning the InfoShop

Whoever comes to Ramat Hanadiv surely knows that the InfoShop is located at the entrance to Ramat Hanadiv. As its name suggests, the shop is full of information: self-guided activities, activities for kids, directions and vast professional...

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Sustainbility | 08.09.22

Plantings and Beginnings

Plantings and Beginnings

What happens when you take away a singer’s microphone? A barber’s scissors? An artist’s paintbrush? A basketball player’s ball? A year after the Shmita year we set out to learn what happened during the long break from planting – the beloved...

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Sustainbility | 23.02.22

Meital Peleg Mizrachi – Working for Fashionable Justice

Meital Peleg Mizrachi – Working for Fashionable Justice

Recycling is important, and travelling on sustainable transport is meaningful, but one of the most polluting and problematic industries with respect to the environment and environmental justice is the fashion industry – Meital Peleg Mizrac...

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Sustainbility | 03.01.22

The Solar Tree

The Solar Tree

We expect trees to give us shade and provide us with fruit, but one tree that charges mobile phones challenges its natural forest brothers and proves that innovation can strike roots

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Nature | 29.12.21

The Wanderer – Dr. Ruvik Rosenthal on Tree‑huggers

The Wanderer – Dr. Ruvik Rosenthal on Tree‑huggers

Where does the term 'tree-huggers' come from? Ruvik Rosenthal, author and linguist, Israel Prize Laureate in journalism, and writer of Comprehensive Dictionary of Slang, Speaking in the Language of the Bible, The Veteran’s Song, The Linguis...

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Nature | 27.12.21

On Trees and Treatment

On Trees and Treatment

Internal Ward A? Orthopedic Ward or even Geriatric Ward? What happens with injured, aging or sick trees at Ramat Hanadiv? Here’s a glimpse into the most pastoral treatment ward in the country.

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Sustainbility | 09.11.21

Breaking the Disposable Habit

Breaking the Disposable Habit

The transition to reusables There’s no need to describe the damage associated with using disposables. More and more municipalities, communities and agencies around the country are making the effort to change their habits – special kits ar...

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Sustainbility | 12.09.21

Garden Calendar – Recommendations from the InfoShop

Garden Calendar – Recommendations from the InfoShop

During this special year, the Shmita year, the InfoShop has recommendations for amateur gardeners – alternative products that are in line with the spirit of Shmita: hammocks – for time out, multiuse imitation flowers for the green garden th...

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Education | 12.09.21

Let’s Take a Break – Shmita as an Educational Opportunity

Let’s Take a Break – Shmita as an Educational Opportunity

What does a rational, diligent and proactive person, who also religiously observant, do? The Shmita year met Baron Rothschild at a critical point during the process of building, establishing and educating the Jewish settlement. How did he ...

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Sustainbility | 10.09.21

Tools at Rest

Tools at Rest

In the lead-up to the opening of the exhibition “Tools at Rest” which opened at Ramat Hanadiv this month (14.9.21), we met with Tali Bichler, an artist and designer of play and activity spaces, for an interview about the journey to illustra...

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Sustainbility | 09.09.21

Shmita at Ramat Hanadiv – What For and Why?

Shmita at Ramat Hanadiv – What For and Why?

Our daily routine is full of many tasks, pressures, demands and constraints, and we often live in expectation of our next break – the weekend, a trip abroad, a family holiday or a hobby that allows us to relax. Perhaps the land is also tire...

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Sustainbility | 07.07.21

Put Nature in Your Bath!

Put Nature in Your Bath!

Ramat Hanadiv's collaboration with the cosmetics firm Lavender brings you three kinds of natural soaps: Healing Herbs, Natural Peeling, and Goat Milk. They're waiting for you in our InfoShop!

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Research | 28.06.21

Science and Technology at Nature’s Service

Science and Technology at Nature’s Service

Climate change carries predictions for reduced amounts of water in the future, and we’re keeping our finger on the pulse. Using advanced technological methods, we’re studying the state of water in the soil and plants over time.

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Research | 08.05.21

Studying Insects

Studying Insects

A new facility for collecting flying insects, which was recently installed at Ramat Hanadiv, will contribute to research on the disappearance of these insects throughout the world. The insects collected by the facility are studied at the En...

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Sustainbility | 09.03.21

Returning to Our Dreams

Returning to Our Dreams

How are our dreams related to sustainability? The new continuing education programme at Ramat Hanadiv, The Pedagogy of Coca Cola, which shines a penetrating spotlight on how we live, buy and dream, deals precisely with this question.

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Community | 31.12.20

Community – The Power to Change

Community – The Power to Change

How do we encourage local community action? What processes need to occur along the way? What are challenges and insights have arisen from the different community projects, and what is the recipe for a successful project? A summary of 5 year...

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Sustainbility | 17.09.20

It’s Not Just About the Honey

It’s Not Just About the Honey

Did you know? The bee has been chosen by the Royal Geographical Society as the most important animal in the world. But we’re not talking only about honey bees. There are more than 1,000 species of wild bees living in nature in Israel, and i...

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Education | 08.07.20

The Environment through Young Eyes

The Environment through Young Eyes

The photography exhibition, “Appearance”, on display at the entrance to Ramat Hanadiv, is the impressive outcome of an educational programme that was held throughout the year in four schools in the region. The intriguing photographs, accomp...

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Sustainbility | 30.06.20

Gardening that’s Worth Its Weight in Gold

Gardening that’s Worth Its Weight in Gold

Got some free time? Start gardening! Ramat Hanadiv is running a ‘Golden Gardening’ course for those aged 60 and over who want to make use of their free time to nurture their home garden. The benefit is double – besides the pleasant and calm...

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Sustainbility | 05.03.20

The Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Natural Underpass for Wildlife

The Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Natural Underpass for Wildlife

Hey, where’s everyone going? The wildlife living here – gazelles, porcupines, jackals, rabbits, foxes, and wild boar – daily traverse the underpass below the Zihkron Ya’akov – Binyamina road, which was built especially for them to facilitat...

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Community | 06.02.20

Wildlife and Humans – Conflict Alongside Coexistence

Wildlife and Humans – Conflict Alongside Coexistence

Wild boar on the streets of Haifa, jackals in the fields of Hefer Valley, hyaenas in the Jerusalem Hills, rock hyraxes on Mt. Carmel… The conflict of coexistence between humans and wildlife reached a multi-participant, in-depth discussion a...

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Research | 08.12.19

The “Goat Wise” Project Presents: Goat culture, a natural pharmacy in the woodland at Ramat Hanadiv and very healthy milk

The “Goat Wise” Project Presents: Goat culture, a natural pharmacy in the woodland at Ramat Hanadiv and very healthy milk

Goat culture, a natural pharmacy in the woodland at Ramat Hanadiv and very healthy milk Ten years after the goat pen was established at Ramat Hanadiv, an Alpine billy goat, whose parents were brought to Israel from France, was bought from ...

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Research | 06.01.19

The willow meadow

The willow meadow

Odorless and tasteless? Not necessarily! It turns out that some find the willow plant tasty and nutritious, and if that’s not enough, it fulfills a central role in a breakthrough, Israeli-Jordan research study dealing with the challenge of ...

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Sustainbility | 29.11.18

Not As It Looks

Not As It Looks

For ten years it’s been hiding under a green hill. Modest on the outside, but complex and sophisticated within. Did you know that this green mound is actually a building? The Visitors Pavilion at Ramat Hanadiv is celebrating a decade since ...

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Sustainbility | 01.08.18

Dreaming in Dutch, Accomplishing in Hebrew

Dreaming in Dutch, Accomplishing in Hebrew

You are probably already familiar with Ramat Hanadiv and its work through the countless articles published here each month, but the man who’s been leading the organization for the last 26 years doesn’t usually give interviews or take center...

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Sustainbility | 05.07.18

Operation Mulberry – Underground Pampering

Operation Mulberry – Underground Pampering

No-one likes feeling crowded; it hinders our movement and even our breathing. It’s the same for trees. In order to grow and live long lives they need space that will allow them to put down roots, move and breathe. A special planting project...

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Sustainbility | 28.06.18

Watering wisely for a happy garden

Watering wisely for a happy garden

Most of us calculate the amount of water for our garden by time. This method causes much water to be wasted. Irrigation by the amount of water can lead to great savings on your water bill and you’ll also be doing something good for our dryi...

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Sustainbility | 15.05.18

Butterflies Taught Me to Fly

Butterflies Taught Me to Fly

Many of us would give anything to return to our childhood. However

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Sustainbility | 03.04.17

When the butterflies are happy, we’re all happy

When the butterflies are happy, we’re all happy

They’re small, magical,  colorful and they teach us about the state of the ecosystem, so how can we not adore them? Get ready for the peak of the butterfly season!

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