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Jaffa to Jerusalem by train

– by Alexander Jones –    This month, for the first time since 1892, the inauguration of a new, direct rail connection from Jaffa to Jerusalem was celebrated. Admittedly today Jaffa is known as Tel Aviv-Yafo, and the new train line doesn’t go as close to the historic centres of either city as the original […]

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Green Olive in the News – Apple Daily – Hong Kong

Green Olive Partners Fred Schlomka and Yamen Elabed spend two full days touring the film crew around Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. Click the video below to view what’s on TV in Hong Kong. 【活在危城】復國還是掠奪？　以巴平民：我們只想和平共存 | 蘋果日報 | 果籽 | 旅遊 | 20190121 This is a part of NextMedia 蘋果日報 | APPLE DAILY 登入 香港  台灣  […]

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Crossing Barriers in Israel with Green Olive Tours

– By Kristin Henning  – August 22, 2017This article won a finalist award from North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) in the Personality and Profiles category. The original article was published on the TravelPast50 Blog. Fred Schlomka, founder of Green Olive Collective, prepares for a long distance ride through the U.S. Fred Schlomka is an […]

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Introducing Echoing Yafa – An Audio Walk through Manshiyyah

By Miri –  During the celebrations for the 64th anniversary of Israel’s independence in 2012, a number of left wing activists from the Israeli non-profit organisation “Zochrot” were prevented by the police to hold an alternative event to commemorate the conquest and destruction of more than 400 Palestinian villages and towns through Israeli forces. One […]

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Travability in Palestine and Israel

By Miri – The myth that people with disabilities travel less than the general population is slowly being dismantled as the demand for accessible travel services globally steadily increases. Research shows that the value of the inclusive tourism sector in 2008 was at no less than 11%, and should now be even higher. As such, […]

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Green Olive Tours: How to Offer Tourists an Alternative Vision

By Amelie Phillipson –  In Israel, tourism is usually orientated towards visiting the Holy Sites by religious pilgrims, or to the image of long sandy beaches in Tel Aviv, Eilat and by the Dead Sea. Yet it also happens that travelers are curious to find out how people live and how a country works, to […]

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Travel Tips

These travel tips are in no particular order but are added according to the whim of the moment by Green Olive Staff. We hope you find them useful. 1. When arriving at the Tel Aviv airport, make sure you dress well. Nothing perks up the interest of the airport security staff like a scruffy single person […]

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