Ein Yorkeam is a very easily accessible water spring situated right at the exit of the Big Crater of Yeruham. A 20 minutes drive from the guesthouse. The place is charming
At the start of 1954 David Ben Gurion announced that he would be resigning from politics and would move to Sde Boqer. This astounded the Israeli public, not the least the young pioneers who had created the the communal farm three years previously. His immediate entourage also had one or two reservations.
Kornmehl Restaurant sits atop a desolate hill on Route 40 one kilometre south of the 211 turn-off, a 15 minutes drive from our guesthouse. All you can see of it from the road below are rows of parked cars of the customers,
Our neighbour is a plant physiologist and his specialty is citrus; he travels around the world attending conferences and meeting growers. He is pretty knowledgeable. He had a dozen Valencia orange saplings lying around his laboratory which had been used in an experiment and were designated for disposal, so he bunged them in the back of his car and brought them home.