The "Krone" on location

The Middle East is so small: in a car through a war zone

Traffic sign in three fonts to the Jordan River (small picture), Egyptian-Israeli border crossing Rafah.(Bild: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP, picturedesk.com (2), Krone KREATIV)

The small world of big crises: Israel "from the river to the sea" 135 kilometers, from Tel Aviv to Gaza only 70 kilometers. The war zone and all the crises around it can easily be covered by car.

The Israeli satirist Ephraim Kishon once wrote: Israelis meet each other. One says: "I had an American friend with me yesterday. The second asks: "What did you do?" The first: "I showed him Israel." The second: "And what did you do in the afternoon?"