Daniel Robinson : Coordinating Author ; Haifa & the North Coast, Lower Galilee & Sea of Galilee, Upper Galilee & Golan, The Dead Sea. Brought up near San Francisco and Chicago. Daniel spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem, a bit of his youth at Kibbutz Lotan and many years in Tel Aviv, where he worked on a PhD in late Ottoman history, covered suicide bombings for the Associated Press, and helped lead the local Critical Mass campaign for bike paths.
A Lonely Planet author since 1989, he holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton and an MA in Jewish History from Tel Aviv University. His favourite activities in Israel include cycling Tel Aviv's historic avenues, hiking the wadis of Ein Gedi, and birdwatching in the Hula and Arava Valleys. Orlando Crowcroft : West Bank, The Gaza Strip. Orlando Crowcroft has spent the bulk of his career so far reporting from the Middle East, including Egypt, the Gulf and the Kurdish region off Iraq.
His first to the West Bank was to attend a football tournament in 2012, when a surprise Palestinian win in Hebron against Tunisia triggered a pitch invasion – and a love affair with the West Bank. In 2014 he was based in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as a stringer for the Guardian and the National, covering Israel, the West Bank and Gaza during the summer war between Hamas and Israel. Virginia Maxwell : Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, The Negev.
Although based in Australia, Virginia spends much of her year researching guidebooks in the Mediterranean region. The author of guidebooks to Italy, Spain, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt. Syria, Lebanon, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, she knows Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East well and adores both regions for their culture, history, architecture, art and food. This is her first time covering Israel & the Palestinian Territories for Lonely Planet.
Virginia also wrote the Safe Travel section. Jenny Walker Petra. Jenny Walker has written widely on the Middle East in many Lonely Planet publications and is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. She has a long academic engagement in the region (dissertation on Doughty and Lawrence. MPhil thesis from Oxford University on the perception of the Arabic Orient and current PhD studies at NTU) and is currently Associate Dean at Caledonian University College of Engineering in Oman.
She has travelled in 110 countries from Panama to Mongolia.
