What I Saw at the Gaza Envelope and Why You Need to Go
What I Saw at the Gaza Envelope — and Why You Need to Go I didn’t plan to guide Gaza Envelope tours. The land brought me there. A few months after October 7, I drove south. Not as a tour guide. As a human being who needed to see. I needed to understand what had […]
Insider Guide – Israel Travel
Planning a trip to Israel? Work with Batsheva → Israel with Batsheva Tours Blog About Plan My Trip Insider Guide · Israel Travel I've Guided Hundreds of Tourists Through Israel — Here's What No Guidebook Will Tell You The real Israel lives between the lines of every history book ever written about it. […]
Baked with Purpose
Baked with Purpose: The Hidden Bakeries of Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda Shuk The Shuk Beyond the Crowd: Why These Bakeries Matter Machane Yehuda is never still. Its rhythms — voices, footsteps, smells — collide in a daily swirl of urgency and flavor. There’s shouting and bargaining, the metallic crash of crates, the smell of […]
Secrets in the Stones: What’s Really Buried Beneath the Kotel
By Batsheva Schwartzberg Every time someone touches the Western Wall, they’re brushing against more than just stone. They’re touching thousands of years of Jewish life—much of it still buried, hidden, and waiting to be discovered. What lies beneath the Kotel isn’t just ancient rock. It’s proof. Proof that Jews were here. Proof that they prepared […]