A brief analysis of recent Israeli foreign policy: regional summits a year and a half on from the Abraham Accords, plus staying neutral in face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – by Alexander Jones – Israel’s strategic foreign policy goals have always been numerous and complex, if nothing else. As the first quarter of 2022 […]
– by Yahav Zohar – May 2021 Israel-Palestine is in the news again, there are bombs and rockets lighting up the sky, turning homes to rubble and dramatically toppling towers. Heads turn in our direction and people want to know what’s going on. “Israel is bombing us” say Gazans. “Hamas shot rockets first” say Israelis. […]
– by Yahav Zohar – June 2020 Just as my youth was spent avoiding classrooms and blackboards, so for most of my adult life I have worked deliberately to avoid offices and computer screens, to be out in the air of the world, moving and meeting people. To some, tour guide seemed like a step […]
SEGREGATED CITY – SEGREGATED WORLD – by Yahav Zohar –Yahav’s second film Jerusalem Revealed, part of the Homeland Insecurity series, is now in pre production. Please support his work by participating in our Kickstarter Campaign at this link >__________May 2020Dear friends and supporters,It’s important for me to show you Jerusalem, and not for the reasons you […]
– by Alexander Jones, Green Olive VP – Let’s begin with a big ‘thank you’, a giant ‘toda’ and a huge ‘shoukran’. Our Kickstarter campaign to fund the second film in our Homeland Insecurity series was an overwhelming success and with your support, we raised over US$11000. Keeping in mind there are a lot of […]
Why Aqsa? – An Update from film director, Yahav Zohar – Yahav’s second film Jerusalem Revealed, part of the Homeland Insecurity series, is now in pre production. Please support his work by participating in our Kickstarter Campaign at this link > Dear friends and supporters, __________ For our next film, we plan to go to Jerusalem and look […]
A letter from film director, Yahav ZoharYahav’s second film Jerusalem Revealed, part of the Homeland Insecurity series, is now in pre production. Please support his work by participating in our Kickstarter Campaign at this link > Dear friends, Thank you for taking an interest in our new project, Homeland Insecurity. The first film in the series, Jaffa […]
One of the best and most challenging tours which Green Olive offers is our weekly Silwan-City of David tour. You can read more about the tour at this page. In the past month, Green Olive senior Israeli guide Yahav Zohar led two successful and challenging guide seminars around the archeological site and the largely Palestinian […]
– by Yahav Zohar – ‘No’, said the policeman, ‘you can’t come through’. ‘But we live here, we need to get home’. ‘The whole area’s closed. If you wait here maybe I can get someone to escort you home in 15 or 20 minutes.’ It was cold, we were hungry, my daughter was crying. The […]
