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EST 1917

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Majdal Shams, Golan Heights – The celebrations in the central squares of this Druze village on the slopes of the Hermon Mountains were so raucous last Monday night that Rawad Shoufi could make out the music and the chants from blocks away. Thousands of residents had poured into the streets after getting word that a […]

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When you think university rowing races, you think Oxford-Cambridge on the Thames, or Harvard-Yale on (Connecticut’s) Thames. Now you can think Tel Aviv-Weizmann on the Yarkon. Nine-member crews from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science recently took part in their first intercollegiate rowing competition, 1,000 meters on the Yarkon River in central […]

After more than 20 years of globe-trotting, I recently had my first consultation with a travel medicine specialist. I don’t know what took me so long. Hubris, I suppose — the fantasy that my own common sense and good luck would spare me the maladies that afflict so many fellow travelers. I’ve spent my share […]

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