New Book: The Good Life in Yehuda and Shomron 

 
"Yesha is Fun". The quality album covers the emerging boutique tourism in the West Bank. The Guide is signed by Shlomo Bashan, who served as the Gush Katif Museum director at the onset, and his wife Karni Eldad - Bashan, the daughter of MK Prof. Aryeh Eldad. The fascinating photographs are thanks to the book designer, artist, illustrator and Bezalel graduate, Amasa Menachem. 

The guide includes hundreds of sites, including B&B, cafes and restaurants, olive presses and sheep farms, boutique wineries and farms, museums, artists and therapists. Most sites were never covered in travel guides published in the country, because they are all is on the right side of the "Green Line" in Benyamin, Shomron, the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea, Gush Etzion and Mount Chevron. 

"We have a dream", say the tourist guide authors, "to influence the area and strengthen the many entrepreneurs in the West Bank. We wish to make us Yehuda and Shomron a choice pick for boutique tourism, one based on the initiative, quality, love of country and blessing of G-d." We, too, were surprised at the amount of tourist sites there are in the area. With the book, you can walk for days in the Yesha, and meet the Land of Israel that we did not know. A beautiful, healthy, pleasant and tasty land it is, indeed. " 

Yesha is Fun is a magnificent guide, with accompanying pictures and maps, fascinating reading, a lovely gift, and especially useful as a travel guide in the Yesha. For the upcoming summer season, you too are invited to strengthen the settlements in Yehuda and Shomron, and go out there for a visit.