Excavations have given proof of a flourishing wine industry in the Byzantine and early Arab period, especially at sites like Shivta, Halutza, Nitzana, and Avdat.
Asteroid 2023 DQ could be as wide as 270 meters, which is the combined height of over 112 Dromedary camels. NASA says it will pass Earth on Shushan Purim.
The government is building nine new Jewish communities and an ultra-Orthodox city to increase the Jewish presence in the south, but this won’t help if the 150,000 Bedouin in unrecognized villages remain neglected