Monday, March 7, 2016

In Yeruham, Israel’s smaller crater is big news

This southern development town is home to the falsely named Big Crater, sand irises and culinary queens


By Jessica Steinberg for The Times of Israel   

When it comes to Israel’s craters, geological landforms created by a mountainous erosion millions of years ago, travelers think first of the Ramon Crater.

But there’s another major Negev crater, aka makhtesh (in addition to three smaller ones): the “Big” Crater just outside the southern development town of Yeruham. It got its misleading name in the days when the larger Ramon Crater was still uncharted.

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