Israel

Israel is a small country, divided between nine graticules from (29,34) to (33,35). In order to unite the few Israeli xkcd fans, a different algorithm was at one point used, but is now defunct. This page was previously used to chronicle points that came up under that alternative algorithm.

Each graticule in Israel has its own problems: some are almost entirely in the Mediterranean Sea, others include much of the disputed territories, and still others contain a truly staggering amount of desert. Some even contain all three. Almost all of them include some area in neighboring countries of varying degrees of unfriendliness. Therefore, in the absence and/or lack of desire for an alternative algorithm, this page should be used to chronicle, for each day, those points that may actually be reachable by Israeli geohashers.

Most Recent Hashes

• March 26: The Jerusalem graticule point is about half a kilometer off of route 60, near Shim'a. The Haifa East point is VERY accessible, merely 50 meters off of route 6, near the Israeli Arab city of Baqa-Jatt. The safety of both areas is unknown.
• March 27: The Beersheba graticule point is about 200 meters off of route 40, between the junction with route 6 and the moshav of Ahuzam.
• March 28: The Beersheba point is about half a kilometer outside of Ze'elim. The Haifa East point is just a couple of meters off of route 90, but possibly in an unsafe area.
• March 29: The Beersheba point is in the middle of some agricultural land east of route 6 south of Kfar Menachem.
• March 30: The only reachable hashpoint is in the Haifa East graticule, southwest of Jat, but the safety level of the area is unknown.
• March 31: The Tel Aviv hashpoint is in a small wooded area in the town of Bnei Tsiyon. The Beersheba hashpoint may be more difficult: it's in the desert just outside Abu Quwaydar al'Afawi, east of Beersheba.
• April 1: The Jerusalem graticule point is about 300 meters off of route 90 north of the Dead Sea. Word has it that this is at least 300m below sea level, making it an extremely difficult to beat Low Geohash if someone were to go. Alternatively, the Haifa East graticule lands in a field outside of Arbel, Israel.

Past expeditions in Israel

• May 28, 2008: Haifa East graticule point was unsuccessfully reached by Ynor
• July 28, 2008: Alternative location cheat in Jerusalem by Lady Pennywhistle.
• March 17, 2009: Yerushalmi and his wife successfully reached the Beersheba graticule's hash point in Kfar Truman.

Graticules and Participants

Those are the geohash graticules in Israel, plus current users:

• Jerusalem, Israel
  • Lady Pennywhistle lives in French Hill, Jerusalem
  • Yerushalmi and his wife
• Tel-Aviv (Goosh Dan), Israel
  • Dor
  • Vyath
  • Improbable
  • Eyal
  • Bryan A (Moving to this graticule in July)
  • Avish
  • pseudoDust
• Haifa East, Israel
  • Ynor
  • Pr0nto
• Beersheba, Israel

Any other users: Don't just lurk! Add yourselves to the wiki pages, so we can know who's participating and try to arrange meetups!

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• Where the alternative algorithm used to be
• Hebrew explanation of an older, still working, alternative algorithm