Israel Travel Podcast with Noa Shapira

This podcast follows one resident as she settles in different parts of Israel over successive seasons. Travelling here means moving between the cool central mountains, the coastal plain around Tel Aviv-Yafo, the Jordan Rift Valley and the Negev desert in the south. The country is small, but each region changes its character quickly. Over the series she moves between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo, then further north to Haifa and the Sea of Galilee. She also spends time in the Negev desert and near the Dead Sea, visiting places such as Mount Sodom and the Gulf of Aqaba. The south is sparsely populated, apart from the shore of the Gulf, and that shapes how travel works there. The show does not rush from one sight to the next. She returns to the same streets and landscapes in different seasons, watching how the heat of the Negev, the rain in the central mountains and the calm of the Sea of Galilee alter a familiar place. Knowing Israel this way is a slow accumulation, not a