Israel National Trail

The Israel National Trail, is a hiking route that become inaugurated in 1995. The trail crosses the entire USA of Israel. Its northern end is at Dan, near the Lebanese border within the far north of the US, and it extends to Eilat on the southernmost tip of Israel at the Red Sea, a period of 1,0.5 km. He Israel National Trail has been indexed in National Geographic's 20 maximum "epic trails." It is defined as a trail that "delves into the grand scale of biblical landscapes as well as the regular lives of the present day Israeli.

The Israel National Trail is the brainchild of Avraham Tamir a journalist and hiker who hiked the Appalachian trail inside the past due 70's and Ori Dvir, hiker, educator and one of the founders of The Society for Protection of Nature in Israel. The INT is over one thousand kilometers long and is marked, managed and maintained by means of The Israel Trails Committee which also blazes, marks and maintains the 15,000 kilometers of hiking trails throughout Israel.

The Israel National Trail changed into formally inaugurated with the aid of then President of Israel, Ezer Weizmann in 1994. One of its purposes is to present Israelis a manner to experience the complete breadth of the land firsthand. The various sections of the path had been delivered regularly at some point of this development.