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  Yotvata Salt Flat
The kites situated near Kibbutz Samar were intended to rap gazelles from the acacia grove south of Yotvata, on the western edge of the Salt Flat.
This water is directed to the farm that existed at the Yotvata oasis.
Yotvata Hai-Bar (nature reserve)- situated between Samar and Yotvata, the reserve was established to protect species of wildlife which have lived in the desert since biblical times and are in danger of extinction.
library.thinkquest.org /C004132/plain/settlemnt.html   (1572 words)

  
  agriculture & settlement tour,farming tour,desert agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Yotvata has 600 'milkers' (mature cows who have had at least 1 calving and already produce milk) with the intention of increasing their herd to 1000 (dependant on milk quotas granted).
Yotvata's dairy and factory account for 50% of its income and they are the symbol of the kibbutz' success.
Yotvata, however, raises crops such as onions, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and fodder crops as they can be harvested by machinery and managed by relatively few people, keeping the work local.
www.travelisrael.co.il /Agricultural_Route.html   (1150 words)

  
 II Journal: Report from the Field: Perceptions of Water Use in the Arava Valley of Israel and Jordan
Different yet are Lotan and Yotvata, communal kibbutz settlements in Israel that have well-managed water supplies with green lawns and swimming pools.
Kibbutz Yotvata, 45 kilometers north of Eilat, was established in 1955 specifically for the development of underground water resources in the Arava.
Yotvata's members are primarily native Israelis with some new immigrants from the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union.
www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol8no2/lipchin.htm   (2005 words)

  
 Yotvata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kibbutz Yotvata (Hebrew: יטבתה) is a kibbutz along the Arava road in the southern Negev in Israel.
It is one of the most successful and stable kibbutzim in Israel because of its famed dairy business and its chain of vegetarian-dairy restaurants.
The dairies of Kibbutz Yahel, Lotan, and Ketura provide milk for Yotvata.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yotvata   (89 words)

  
 Yotvata Salt Flat
Yotvata's largest income producing branch is their dairy plant.
Yotvata Dairy processes milk from all the kibbutzim in the region, producing a variety of products including puddings, chocolate milk, sour cream and, of course, milk.
Yotvata Hai-Bar (nature reserve)- situated between Samar and Yotvata, the reserve was established to protect species of wildlife which have lived in the desert since biblical times and are in danger of extinction.
shaharoot.kfar-olami.org.il /salt-flat/plain/settlemnt.html   (1572 words)

  
 Kibbuz, Yotvata, יטבתה, nahe, militärische, heutige Yotvata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Yotvata (Hebräisch: יטבתה) ist ein Kibbuz in der israelischen Aravasenke.
Yotvata wurde 1951 zunächst als militärische Siedlung gegründet, später ging der heutige Kibbuz daraus hervor.
In der Nähe Yotvatas wurde der Tierpark "Hai Bar" eingerichtet; dieser Park bietet einen Lebensraum für Tiere, die in biblischer Zeit in dieser Gegend heimisch waren.
www.dbilink.de /Yotvata.html   (141 words)

  
 Yotvata Wildlife Preserve (Hai-Bar)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The southern center, near Yotvata Kibbutz in the Arava, is for animals used to desert conditions, and the Northern center, on the Carmel Hills, is for animals of the Mediterranean climate.
Animals that were returned to the Israeli landscape from the Hai-Bar reserve in Yotvata include the Onager (Asiatic wild ass) and the Arabian oryx.
The Yotvata Wildlife preserve is on route 90 (Dead-Sea - Eilat), about 35km north of Eilat (between Kibbutz Yotvata and Kibbuts Samar).
www.trekker.co.il /english/yotvata-wildlife-preserve.htm   (414 words)

  
 Israel Nature & National Parks Protection Authority - Site page
The mission of Yotvata Hai-Bar (Wildlife Preserve) Nature Reserve is to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals.
Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction.
Yotvata Hai-Bar Nature Reserve is on Route 90 (Dead Sea-Eilat) between Kibbutz Yotvata and Kibbutz Samar, about 35 kilometers north of Eilat.
www.parks.org.il /ParksENG/company_card.php3?NewNameMade=48&from=116&CNumber=422155   (371 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The valley floor between there and Yotvata is gradually being taken over by new plantations of date palms and fields of melons, onions, maize etc. This has resulted in an increase in the size of the various irrigation ponds but, more worryingly, in the destruction of the few reed-beds.
Elsewhere there were 20 at the Ringing Station and a single at Shizzafon on 21st, eight at K18 on 22nd, ten and five at Yotvata on 22nd and 24th respectively, five at the Date Palms on 24th and ten at K18 on 26th.
Wryneck As usual confiding birds: two (one of which was being photographed from a ridiculously close distance) at Yotvata on 21st and 25th, a single in Ophirim Park on 24th and 25th, singles in the Date Palms and at the Cemetery on 24th, with one at K40 the next day.
www.simongoodwin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /eilat2001.htm   (9053 words)

  
 Hai Bar Animal and Nature Reserve Red Sea Desert - near Eilat, Israel
Hai-Bar Yotvata is located in the Yotvata Reserve, 40 kilometers north of Eilat on the Arava Highway, between Kibbutz Yotvata to the north and Kibbutz Samar to the south.
The 4,000-acre reserve is in the Yotvata salt marsh.
Hai-Bar Yotvata Nature Reserve is not a zoo; it is a unique attempt to restore endangered animals to Israel’s landscape.
redseadesert.com /html/060haibar.html   (1531 words)

  
 ThinkQuest : Library : The Yotvata Salt Flat: Man and Environment
ThinkQuest : Library : The Yotvata Salt Flat: Man and Environment
The Yotvata Salt Flat, in the Arava desert, is located 30 km north of the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba within the geologic province of the Syrian-African Rift.
Surrounding this sterile plain are microenvironments that depend on the nature of the soil and the rocks.
www.thinkquest.org /library/site.html?team_id=C004132   (201 words)

  
 Yotvata, Israel
Some 20km/12.5mi north of the turning for Timna is the oasis (date-palms) of the kibbutz of Yotvata, originally founded in 1951 as an army post.
It is watered by an abundant spring, En Yotvata (Arabic Ain Radian), which is mentioned in the Old Testament ("Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters": Deuteronomy 10,7).
The kibbutz's visitor center puts on an audio-visual show which illustrates the geography and way of life of the region.
www.planetware.com /elat/yotvata-isr-st-eiy.htm   (122 words)

  
 Yotvata | Restaurant Review | Haifa | Frommers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Right on the beach, at the lower terminus of Haifa's famous aerial cable car, this is an extremely popular emporium for dairy and vegetarian food.
For under NIS 50 ($11) there are salads, cheese platters served with fresh herbs and vegetables, blintzes, pancakes, vegetable pies, pastas, and pizzas.
The mixtures of natural fruit juices are famous, as are Yotvata's many ice-cream parlor desserts.
www.frommers.com /destinations/haifa/D40194.html   (199 words)

  
 Yotvata | Restaurant Review | Tel Aviv | Frommers.com
Popular Yotvata has carried this concept into the '90s and turned it into a bustling, high-powered, multistory empo-rium on the beachfront.
Everything is made from the best-quality produce bought directly from kibbutzim and from the famous dairy kibbutz at Yotvata.
For under $10 there are salads, cheese platters served with fresh herbs and vegetables, blintzes, pancakes, vegetable pies, pastas, and pizzas.
www.frommers.com /destinations/telaviv/D38812.html   (226 words)

  
 BONGARILIITTO
Left Elat for Yotvata early in the morning.
Singles at Yotvata 5.11., Urim 5.11., Jerusalem, Eilat 11.11.
Singles at Yotvata 5.11 and at Nizzana, two at Tirat Zevi.
www.bongariliitto.fi /matkakertomukset/Israel/Israel_1987-11_Forsten.html   (4132 words)

  
 Yotvata, Tel Aviv-Yafo - Restaurants - VirtualTourist.com
The Yotvata restaurant was named after a kibbutz "Yotvata" which is located on the South of Israel about 25 miles from Eilat.
Yotvata restaurants can be found almost in every city in Israel, but the one in Tel Aviv is the busiest one.
This restaurant is own by the milk factory of Kibbutz Yotvata near Eilat, they have delicious products and great menu all made of baked products, milk products and vegetarian.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Middle_East/Israel/Tel_Aviv_District/Tel_Aviv_Yafo-1708077/Restaurants-Tel_Aviv_Yafo-Yotvata-BR-1.html   (565 words)

  
 Israel 1996
Also we were turned back from the northern fields of Yotvata by two soldiers (with fancy sunglasses) in a Jeep.
Largest flock 200 at Yotvata sewage farm on 17th.
2 at the sewage ponds of Yotvata on 17th.
www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/IsraelJP96.html   (3209 words)

  
 Pollution in a Promised Land: CHAPTER SIX
Avinoam "Finky" Finkleman was doing his daily run, driving the truck from Kibbutz Yotvata's dairy to the north of Israel.
As he approached the Nahal Chayon stream bed, a large animal meandered across the road.
Every kibbutz has at least one nature fanatic, and Giora Ilani was the resident expert at Yotvata in those days.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9023/9023.ch06.html   (964 words)

  
 Black Bush Robin Cercotrichas podobe, Yotvata, Israel
The area surrounding Yotvata and has become the single best location to see this species anywhere in Israel, and in some years up to five individuals have been recorded here.
Personally, I've seen nine individuals at Yotvata since 1995, with others at a wide scatter of locations from Lotan south to Eilat.
All of these images were taken at Yotvata on the morning of 23rd March 2003, please enjoy them.
www.birdingisrael.com /birdNews/GuestOfHonor/black_bush_Robin/index.htm   (246 words)

  
 Cheap flights to Yotvata by Just the Flight
Cheap flights to Yotvata by Just the Flight
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Unfortunately we are unable to offer an online searching facility for flights to Yotvata.
www.justtheflight.co.uk /cheap-flights/YOT-yotvata.html   (101 words)

  
 Yotvata Salt Flat
Abstracts and graphs; “Salts Along the Margin of Yotvata Salt Flat”, Dr. Rivka Amit, Geological Survey of Israel, manuscript written for use in the website, March, 2000.
Proposal for Master Thesis, “The Formation of Stratification in Fluvial Gravels in the Southern Part of the Yotvata Salt Marsh”, Faculty of Geography, Ben Gurion University, February, 2000 by Yanai Shlomi and Jonathan B. Laronne.
Salinity Map of Yotvata Salt Flat Groundwater, Yaakov Knafi, Master’s Thesis: “Water in the Soutern AravaHebrew University, Jerusalem, 1972.
shaharoot.kfar-olami.org.il /salt-flat/plain/credits.html   (770 words)

  
 BONGARILIITTO
The road from Mizpe Ramon to Yotvata was being repaired, but it wasn't too slow.
At Gerofit, just north of Yotvata, we were given nice views of a Barbary Falcon which was hunting Rock Pigeons.
I again risked eating some icecream at Yotvata and we also had some soup which was pretty spicy.
www.bongariliitto.fi /matkakertomukset/Israel/Israel_1991-11-12_Forsten.html   (6043 words)

  
 PETplanet Insider 09/2001 WHITE GOLD FROM THE NEGEV
This didn‘t deter the residents of Yotvata Kibbutz in Israel, where a herd of Holsteins is helping them to supply 35 million litres of milk annually.
About 50 kilometres inland from Eilat, in the Negev desert, is Yotvata, where in 1961 the young residents of the kibbutz, under the leadership of Ori Chorazo, undertook a bold venture.
All of the Yotvata products are ESL (extended shelf life) which is made possible with the help of the ultra-clean filling concept.
www.hbmedia.net /petplanet/petplanet/insider/2001/09/articles/bottlingfilling3.shtml   (497 words)

  
 Jerusalem Post: Strauss buys 33% stake in Yotvata@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Strauss Dairies yesterday announced that it signed an agreement to acquire a 33% stake in Yotvata Dairies for $10.6 million.
Over the past few years, Yotvata, which manufacturers high quality yogurt, cheeses, puddings and other dairy products, has had marketing difficulties.
As a result, the company said it decided to start a strategic partnership to improve distribution channels and to increase its market presence.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:4606903&refid=holomed_1   (193 words)

  
 Birding in Israel - May 2005 summary
Great Snipe (Gallinago media): 1, Yotvata sewage, Arava, 01/MAY (J. Meyrav), present since the 27th of April; 1 at HaBesor stream on the 2nd (J. Smith, D. Mitchell et al).
Richard's Pipit (Anthus richardi): 1 at Yotvata fields on the 5th (J. Smith, D. Mitchell et al).
River Warbler (Locustella fluviatilis): 5 ringed at the JBO on 12-14th (G. Perlman, N. Weiss, S. Agmon, Y. Kiat et al); up to 15 at Yotvata's circular field on the 15th (N. Weiss et al).
www.israbirding.com /reports/monthly_summaries/may_05   (541 words)

  
 Archaeology of Yotvata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
AncientWorlds > Rome > The Palatine > The Roman army on the Frontiers > Archaeology of Yotvata
I am currently the illustrator for the Yotvata Excavation Project in southern Israel and a new member to this forum.
The fort at Yotvata is a standard Roman castellum that was constructed on the Roman frontier to protect caravan traffic along the road from Arab marauders.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/521721   (196 words)

  
 Nature Reserves in Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
During the 1960's a project was started to restore the vanished species.
In 1968 the Hai-Bar Yotvata reserve was set up with a view to reintroduce and acclimatize the desert animals.
An area of some 12 km' (3000 acres) where many acacia trees grow and with a relative abundance of natural pasture was fenced.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/statue/63/nature6.htm   (808 words)

  
 Yotvata Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
Yotvata: Things To Do Local time: 1:32 pm Sunday, April 23, 2006.
After you have drunk the chocolate milk Yotvata is famous for, you are ready to visit the wild life reserve, called Chai-Bar in Hebrew.
Directions: The reserve is located on road number 90, the road leading to Eilat, about 5 km south of Yotvata.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Middle_East/Israel/Southern_District/Yotvata-1707922/Things_To_Do-Yotvata-R-1.html   (301 words)

  
 Lost Friends Reunited in Kibbutz Yotvata = F O R U M =
I was at Yotvata for a year, first as an Ulpanist (I immigrated to Israel and lived there for 7 years) and then I stayed on as a volunteer for several months.
I was in Yotvata in 2000 summer at Ulpan.
The LostAmigos team has pledged $2000 to cover all admin costs so every penny you send will go directly to the people and their boat.
www.lostamigos.net /visitors/viewtopic1.asp?topic_id=9083&start=0   (661 words)

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