The Israeli Trail Project
A National Online Platform for Accessible Non-Motorized Nature-Based Activity in Israel
“A country is truly accessible when people can move through it independently.”
Connecting Trails, Inspiring Journeys
The Israeli Trail Project is a public-interest initiative designed to establish an online platform that brings together Israel’s non-motorized trails, enabling independent exploration through hiking, trail running, cycling, and mountain biking.
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What We’re Building?
The Israeli Trail Project is an initiative to create a single, trusted online platform for exploring and planning non-motorized routes across Israel.
The platform will bring together hiking, trail running, cycling, and mountain biking routes into one coherent system—allowing people to move confidently across the country through nature, using clear information, high-quality mapping, and up-to-date conditions.
This is not a tourism product or a commercial app.
It is a public-interest platform designed to support nature access, public health, connection to the land, and independent tourism.
Comprehensive
Support for hiking, trail running, cycling, mountain biking, and e-bikes
Detailed
Single-Stop
A single multi-language platform of online map and planning tool for non-motorized routes across Israel
Trusted
Regularly updated information linked to real-time hazards, path conditions and forecast
Clear grading by activity type, difficulty, skills, region, length, season and weather
Why Israel Needs This?
From the deserts of the south to the mountains, forests, and water systems of the north, Israel offers exceptional natural and cultural landscapes. Yet today, access to these spaces is fragmented, making independent exploration unnecessarily difficult for large parts of the population.
Fragmented Information
Trail information is scattered across informal sources, agencies, regional councils and sport-specific initiatives. Routes are often hard to understand, compare, or adapt to different abilities, seasons, and activities, with no single place to check real-time conditions such as weather, closures, or safety alerts.
Barriers For Unguided Outdoor
For many users—including families, youth, tourists, and people without strong local knowledge—planning an outdoor outing can be challenging and, at times, uncomfortable. These barriers reduce people’s confidence to explore independently.
As a result, large parts of Israel’s natural landscape remain under-used as shared public resources, despite their potential to support public health, connection to the land, sustainable sport-based tourism, and regional development.
Untapped National Potential
National Impact
Non-motorized movement through nature strengthens bonding to place, supports physical and mental health, and enables independent, meaningful exploration of Israel. By making trails easier to discover and navigate, the Israeli Trail Project encourages sport-based tourism, longer stays, deeper engagement with landscapes and communities, and sustainable economic activity in peripheral regions—benefiting individuals, communities, and the country as a whole.
Belonging & Connection
Moving through the land by foot or bicycle fosters deep attachment to place. Research shows that outdoor sports strengthens identity and a sense of rootedness.
Health & Resilience
Regular movement in nature supports physical and mental health across ages and communities, serving as a low-cost, high-impact public health resource.
Strengthening the Periphery
Connected trail journeys encourage longer stays, slower travel, and local spending in the Galilee, Negev, Golan, Arava, and Judean Desert—supporting small communities and regional resilience.
Independent Sport-Based Tourism
Non-motorized, sport-based movement allows both local and non-local visitors to experience Israel independently and meaningfully, beyond guided tours or isolated attractions. Clear, accessible trail information enables confident self-planning, longer stays, and deeper engagement with landscapes, communities, and regions.
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Call to Action
The Israeli Trail Project is a non-profit, public-interest initiative serving Israel’s people, landscapes, and future.
If you are a foundation, organization, public body, or potential partner interested in improving access to Israel’s natural spaces, public health, regional development, or connection to the land, we invite you to join the project’s next phase.
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