NEGEV DESERT, Israel — A group of Utah Mormon Republican lawmakers walk into a Jewish socialist kibbutz in the middle of the desert. It’s not a joke. This article is published through the Great Salt ...

The ultimate use of atomic energy to convert sea water into fresh water to be used for irrigation of huge areas of the Negev was predicted today by former Premier David Ben Gurion in an interview he ...

New water sources have been discovered by the Mekorot Water Company in the Araba sector of the Negev, it was reported here today. The water, discovered at the relatively shallow depth of 150 feet, was ...

MITZPE RAMON, Israel — In the Negev Desert, the sun beats down on a parched landscape of brown, undulating hills. But on a parcel of land here in southern Israel, trees grow in green rows, and fat ...

More than 3,400 years ago, God told Joshua to lead the Hebrew people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land that is now Israel. If they worked hard and followed his commandments, it would ...

With nearly year-round sunshine and little rain in Israel's Negev desert, David Pinto has adopted a micro-irrigation system at his vineyard — MENAHEM KAHANA In Israel's Negev desert, winemakers are ...

(Left) Dr. Eilon Adar, one of Israel's leading water experts and former director of the Zuckerberg Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, ...

MAKING the desert bloom is again a preoccupation instead of’ a cliché in Middle East countries. Arnold Toynbee, traveling through the states of the Fertile Crescent five years ago, wrote of a coming ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. More than 1,500 years ago, an ancient Arab people built a Christian ...

Negev Desert, Israel • A group of Utah Mormon Republican lawmakers walk into a Jewish socialist kibbutz in the middle of the desert. It’s not a joke. A delegation of Utah water officials, state ...