The Arava Dessert in south of Israel is one of the countries most advanced areas technology wise at the same time as one of the most challenging one to survive in. We joined a fact-finding mission of the Jewish Colonization Association who visited the Arava to find projects to fund in 2014. The JCA invests over two-million-dollars a year in around 70-projects per year in Israeli periphery with funds the Baron De Hirsch has donated over a hundred years ago.