Ending 2021 on a high: 12 Israeli secrets captured from above

It's the Israel you've never seen before, from a little-known shipwreck 15 minutes from Tel Aviv to the middle of the desert under the Milky Way.

The Sa’ar Shipwreck, just north of Herzliya (photo: Yoav Cohen)

2021 was an interesting year to be alive. Lockdowns, elections, more elections, new government, terror attacks, travel restrictions, vaccinations, more vaccinations, anti vaxxers…

At some point, you just needed to get away from it all. So I did.

With a drone.

160 new immigrants from France arrive in Israel amid surge in ‘aliyah’

This particular group included doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, media professionals and 46 young people under the age of 18.

Children from France arrive in Israel as part of a group aliyah flight on July 21, 2021. Photo by Noga Malsa.

(July 21, 2021 / JNS) A group of 160 new French immigrants to Israel arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday aboard a special aliyah flight from Paris organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration.

The new arrivals were accompanied on the flight by Israel’s Minister of Aliyah and

32 minutos de Jerusalén a Tel Aviv: en pocos días se inaugurará finalmente la ruta de tren

Foto: REUTERS / Ammar Awad

Después de años de planificación, construcción y repetidos retrasos, antes de terminar el 2019 se pondrá en funcionamiento la nueva línea de tren rápido entre Tel Aviv y Jerusalén.

El día 21 de diciembre, a las 21:56 saldrá desde la estación Itzhak Navon en la capital de Israel el primer tren que llegará a Tel Aviv a las 22:28, tras hacer una parada en el aeropuerto Ben Gurion. A la misma hora, un tren saldrá en dirección contraria y llegará a Jerusalén a las 22:30.