Shalom to all the participants in the Mystery Class project, We hope you had an intresting time doing your research on this project. I will try and tell you a bit about our place. We live in a small settlement (about 100 families) called Midreshet Ben-Gurion (Midreset is Collage in Hebrew, and David Ben-Gurion was the first prime minister of Israel). This place is located in the Negev, this is the southern part of Israel. If you look at the Atlas - you will see that there is a triangle in the south of Israel: A line conecting the cities of Gaza, Beer-Sheva and Arad at the North. and Eilat (on the top of the Aqaba Golf) at the south. Sde-Boker is about 50 KM South of Beer Sheva. This triangle is a Smi- Arid Desert - we have less than 100 mm. of rain evry year and the vegetation is very sparse, and mainly concentrated in the Wadis. Wadi is a dry river bed - where water is running only occasionally during the winter, when it id raining. At these times we have floods and evryone is going out to see the waterfalls. Everything dries out within few houres later. Our place is overlooking Wadi Zin (the wilderness of Zin) - and the view is fantastic. David Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula are buried here, on a terrace overlooking the Cliffes of Wadi Zin. Many visitiors are coming to visit the grave and to look at the magnificent desert veiw. When we are looking for our students (or our Kids) it is common to hear an answer "he/she went to the grave" - this may sound strange to those who hear it for the first time. The weather showes that the summer just started now - the days get longer (as you may already know) and hotter. They will open the (uncoverd) swimming pool soon. We work (and study) in a very special and unique high school. This is a High School for Environmental Studies. This is a boarding school and we have about 200 students that come to study here from all parts of the country. Oue curriculuum has a big part of Environmental Issues and our students are involved in many Field Activities. We will be very happy to answer questions and to give you more information. Best regards and Shalom, Hannah and Students. ___________________________________________________________________________ | David Lloyd, Hannah Sivan ____ | | The High School for Environmental Studies / \ We teach IN the | | Sde-Boker, ISRAEL 84990 / \ Environment, ON | | E-mail <boker@zeus.datasrv.co.il> ____/ \ the Environment | | <boker@snunit.huji.ac.il> / \ | | Voice 972-7-565897 / \ and FOR the | | Fax 972-7-556286 -------------/ \___ Environment| | | | David's English Page: http://snunit.huji.ac.il/snunit_e/snunit_e.html | | Hannah's Geography Page: http://snunit.huji.ac.il/snunit_g/snunit_g.htm | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------