Netivot -- The Varanasi of Israel: Israel's Fraught Border With Gaza on the Looney Front, Part 2 (TRAVEL)
If Sderot is known as the Bomb Shelter Capital of the World (previous blog) Netivot, eight miles further south along the fraught border with Gaza, has been called the Varanasi of Israel, likened to Hinduism's holiest city because of its links to Jewish mysticism and miracles.