Nadene Goldfoot
Nadene Goldfoot
"good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey..."1 Honey here (and elsewhere in the Scriptures) is generally understood to be a reference to fruit nectar, specifically date honey—not bees' honey. (Chabad) 
I'd say that Israel is the land of falafels today.
The Negev's northern part is a prairie and the southern is mountainous. The Sinai Desert has throughout history been the region separating the Land of Israel from the Land of Egypt.
The Coastal Plain and its eastward incursion is the Valley of Jezreel.
The Mountains rise to above 1,000 meters (3,300 feet). Safed and Jerusalem are about at the same heights on top of their mountain. In the north is the Galilee. Mt. Meron near Safed is 3,692 feet high; Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel.
Mt Canaan near Safed is 3,149 feet high and Mt Herzl in Jerusalem is 2,741 feet high. The lowest is Mt Gilboa in the Jezreel Valley of 1,631 feet high.
In the center is Judea and Samaria, called the West Bank by Jordan.
The Jordan Rift Valley contains the Jordan River which links 2 internal seas; Lake Kinneret of 665 feet, and 220 meters below sea level--and---the Dead Sea which is the lowest place in the world. It is 392 meters, 1,286 feet below sea level.
The Arava Valley stretches between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea.
Israel has 4 rivers: Jordan of 157 miles, Yarkon of 16 miles, Kishon of 8 miles and Yarmuk of 5.5 miles.
Modern Israel hasn't had permanent boundaries. Until 1967, its boundaries consisted of temporary armistice lines, agreed upon in 1949, the year after its birthday. Since 1967 and pending a peace settlement, cease-fire lines demarcate the area under Israeli control. The cease-fire lines are 842 km (523 miles) long, compared with the armistice lines which were 951 km (570 miles) long. Most of the urban regions of Israel are less than 2 hours from the nearest cease-fire lines. Before 1967, the armistice lines bisected Jerusalem and were 20 minutes away from Tel Aviv. East Jerusalem was reunified in June 1967 with West Jerusalem. It's one city, the capital of Israel as it always has been since King David (1010 BCE-970 BCE).
Israel has 3 different climates to dress for:
1. Coastal plain: has mild winter with rainfall mostly between November and March.
2. Mountains: Safed-Cool to Cold winter with rainfall mostly between November and March. Occasionally there is snow. Summers are hot and dry with cool evenings. School had no heat, so I taught in my coat, never taking it off.
3. Desert and Jordan Rift Valley: It has mild winter with rain in the northern part of the Valley, and is cool at night with hot summers. Jerusalem temperature goes from 48-59 F to 66-82. That's nice because they are situated in the Judean Hills.
The Jordan Valley found in Judea-Samaria was almost annexed by Israel officially but the peace with 2 countries stopped it from happening as peace came first and foremost. The Valley is Israel's farmland.
- Agriculture is the leading economic sector in the Jordan Valley, due to its unique climate. The strong sun radiation and below average rainfall encourages fruits and vegetables to grow with relatively low infestation, resulting in high quality crops.
- Agricultural production in the Jordan Valley, cultivated over an area of about 33,000 dunams, is valued at about 500 million Shekels annually. It is a major producer of dates, table grapes, peppers, herbs and spices, cherry tomatoes, eggplants, citrus fruit, pomegranates and more.
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