The article 'The Negev desert wine route' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.
Like most Middle Eastern deserts, the Negev is usually associated with sand, rock and the odd camel.
The project was initiated by Tzvi Ganel, from the neuroscience center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
In October 2012, Israeli warplanes tracked and eventually shot down a drone over the country's northern Negev Desert.
Dan Blumberg of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer Sheva, Israel, has a more forceful approach.
They will be split into three groups of 10 and man three guard posts in the Galilee and the Negev.
You can still see traces of their ancient irrigation systems at the ruined cities of Shivta and Mamshit in the Negev.
Dr. Becker was a Kreitman Scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel from 1996 to 1997.
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We also understand that, in this context, Israel believes it is important to bring new opportunities to the Negev and the Galilee.
The police claim that their failure to protect the lives and property of the Negev farmers is a result of lack of manpower.
To prove this point, he and his team buried aluminium squares at different depths under the sand of the Negev desert in southern Israel.
Umm al-Hiran lies in a wadi, or small valley, not far from the large town of Beersheba at the top end of the Negev desert.
The American status as arbiters of compliance has far reaching implications for Israel's ability to cope effectively with the security situation in Gaza and the Western Negev.
The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new.
The wine route started in the late 1990s, when Zvi Remak, who studied winemaking at California's Napa Valley College, decided to plant a vineyard on the grounds of the Sde Boker Kibbutz in the northern Negev.
If it meet its goals, 6, 000 volunteers and 300 national service program members will operate from 30 guard stations in the Galilee and the Negev and protect between 400, 000 and 600, 000 dunams of state land.
Scattered elsewhere around the country are even smaller micro breweries such as Asif in Ramot Haftali and Malka in Kibbutz Yechiam, both in the Galilee region, Lone Tree in the Judean Mountains and Negev in Kiryat Gat in the southern desert.
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