"Cherry Festival" events in the Golan Heights were kicked off yesterday afternoon. Cooking workshops for children, Israeli singers and hikes were among the features yesterday. Visitors to the Golan over the coming months will be able combine cherry-picking - and other forest fruits - with hikes in the many nature reserves and mountains of the region.
In other Golan news, a new underground passage will be built at the Yahudiya River and Falls parking lot, to enable the thousands of yearly visitors to reach the popular site in safety. Transportation Ministry Dir.-Gen. Ben-Tzion Salman, who recently toured the area, gave his approval for a series of projects. In addition to the tunnel, an Artists' Colony is to be established near Aniam, new roads will be built for the purpose, and a bypass route around the central Golan town of Bnei Yehuda will be paved.
Bnei Yehuda is located on one of the relatively few plots of Golan land historically owned by Jews; the Bnei Yehuda society of Tzfat purchased it in 1886. (Some land in Syria, east of the Golan, is Jewish-owned, such as some 18,000 acres purchased by Baron Rothschild in 1891, approx. 15 km. east of present-day Ramat Magshimim).
In other Golan news, a new underground passage will be built at the Yahudiya River and Falls parking lot, to enable the thousands of yearly visitors to reach the popular site in safety. Transportation Ministry Dir.-Gen. Ben-Tzion Salman, who recently toured the area, gave his approval for a series of projects. In addition to the tunnel, an Artists' Colony is to be established near Aniam, new roads will be built for the purpose, and a bypass route around the central Golan town of Bnei Yehuda will be paved.
Bnei Yehuda is located on one of the relatively few plots of Golan land historically owned by Jews; the Bnei Yehuda society of Tzfat purchased it in 1886. (Some land in Syria, east of the Golan, is Jewish-owned, such as some 18,000 acres purchased by Baron Rothschild in 1891, approx. 15 km. east of present-day Ramat Magshimim).