Celebrating Rosh Hashanah: about 100 thousand travelers came to the nature reserves and national parks

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis went out to celebrate the Hebrew New Year in nature.

Among the prominent sites were the Ashkelon National Park, the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve and the Yarkon National Park.

Also tomorrow, there will be activities at sites across the country, including flying kites and mosaic workshops

Yoav Itiel

09/26/2022

Monday, September 26, 2022, 5:53 p.m. Updated: 8:28 p.m.

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Hikers in the Ein Afek Nature Reserve (Shlomit Shavit, Nature and Parks Authority)

The pleasant weather and the freedom of Rosh Hashanah brought out about 100 thousand travelers today (Monday) who visited the nature reserves and national parks.

Among the prominent sites today were: the Ashkelon National Park with about 3,500 Israelis, the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve with about 3,000 visitors, the Yarkon National Park with about 3,000 travelers, and the Apollonia, HaSlosha and Caesarea National Parks with about 2,500 travelers in each of them.

The Banias and Tel Dan nature reserves and Masada, Maayan Harod and Ein Hamad national parks also stood out.

About 9,000 people travel to us in the night parking lots of the Nature and Parks Authority from the beginning of the weekend until the eve of the holiday, of which about 3,600 people celebrated the eve of the Rosh Hashanah holiday in the night parking lots.

Among the overnight parking lots, the parking lots in Achziv, Horesh Tal, Ma'ayan Harod, Ashkelon, Meshit, Barot, and Mesada stood out.

Hikers in the Ein Afek nature reserve.

Today (photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shlomit Shavit)

Flying kites in Apollonia National Park (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Or Cohen)

Hikers in Gamla Nature Reserve (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Jalaa Beshara)

The Nature and Parks Authority announced that tomorrow there will also be a variety of trainings and activities for travelers at the sites, among them, guided tours in collaboration with the community gardens, road guides and the Ministry of Tourism in the Hamat Tiberias, Beit Shean, Ancient Yodfat, Tzipori, Harbel, Tel Arad, Masada and Harbel national parks and experiential tours in the reserves as well Ein Perat, Eynat Tsukim, Nahal Eyon and more.

Other activities that will take place are the flying of kites at Tel Marsha in the Beit Govrin National Park, mosaic workshops and New Year's cards in the Beit Alfa National Park and the new year's wishing tree in the Yarkon Tel Afek National Park.

Full details on the variety of activities on the website of the Nature and Parks Authority.

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