Desert Matters

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Founding year

  • 2013

What we do

Since 2013 a group of determined people from Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt, create together a warm relationship despite the governmental hostility between these countries.
We believe that peace is made between individuals, people, communities.
We, the local people, refuse to maintain hostility and wish to cross the cultural gaps by meeting and working together.
We all make our living on tourism, hosting people in our communities, hoping to create a new type of tourism: Based on personal meetings with people from the local communities, off the beaten track.
Our cross-border tours and programs share cultural knowledge and deep engagement between the participants and the guests from abroad.
We created Desert Matters, a communal network, that market and exhibit all the participants, inviting people from all over the world to share and celebrate with us the best of our regions, the way only local people experience it.
Far away from attractions, big commercial international hotels, our vision is to create people-to-people tourism, more of hosting, less of tourism.
One of our main goals is to strengthen these communities culturally and economically.
We believe that visitors from abroad elevate the cultural pride of the young generations, and encourages the old ones to tell their story.
We also wish to make a living together and strengthen the local economies.
We believe, that a sustainable cross-border partnership in this conflict zone needs economical products with proven income to survive.
Desert Matters is also a guarantee for our good neighborhood relationships!
Most important for us is to create responsible tourism, that contributes its profits to the local communities and minimizes its Ecological footprint.
We demand from all our participant services high responsibility and care for the environment, hoping to educate the local populations to respect the landscape and its flora and fauna as a precious resource that needs protection.

  • Languages
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew

What we do

Since 2013 a group of determined people from Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt, create together a warm relationship despite the governmental hostility between these countries.
We believe that peace is made between individuals, people, communities.
We, the local people, refuse to maintain hostility and wish to cross the cultural gaps by meeting and working together.
We all make our living on tourism, hosting people in our communities, hoping to create a new type of tourism: Based on personal meetings with people from the local communities, off the beaten track.
Our cross-border tours and programs share cultural knowledge and deep engagement between the participants and the guests from abroad.
We created Desert Matters, a communal network, that market and exhibit all the participants, inviting people from all over the world to share and celebrate with us the best of our regions, the way only local people experience it.
Far away from attractions, big commercial international hotels, our vision is to create people-to-people tourism, more of hosting, less of tourism.
One of our main goals is to strengthen these communities culturally and economically.
We believe that visitors from abroad elevate the cultural pride of the young generations, and encourages the old ones to tell their story.
We also wish to make a living together and strengthen the local economies.
We believe, that a sustainable cross-border partnership in this conflict zone needs economical products with proven income to survive.
Desert Matters is also a guarantee for our good neighborhood relationships!
Most important for us is to create responsible tourism, that contributes its profits to the local communities and minimizes its Ecological footprint.
We demand from all our participant services high responsibility and care for the environment, hoping to educate the local populations to respect the landscape and its flora and fauna as a precious resource that needs protection.

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2013
  • Started living together
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50

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Location

  • Israel

Desert Matters

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3 weeks ago

Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
October 27, 2026 13:00 – November 17, 2026 15:00
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