Where is the Promised land?

I know just reading the title you will say the answer is easy. The promised land is Israel right. 

I also believed that until recently. I even had in my wish list Israel for the next trip. I was so interested in seeing the holy land, but not anymore. 

I read Deuteronomy 8 one day and as I read it I was doing an online search to confirm the existence of some fruits mentioned there. Well, let me say I was biased anyway because I was no longer convinced that Israel is the promised land of the bible. It was more to confirm that these fruits don't exist there.

In Deutoronomy 8 Moses is very specific of what they will find in the land and how they should behave. Those things are unique to that environment. Yes, some fruits or rocks can be found somewhere else but not everything in the list can be found in one land at once. The make-up of earth is all nations have their own unique foods and so is the promised land

Deutoronomy 8: 7-9 (NIV)

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land - a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey, a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing, a land where rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

Well a quick list of things is like this

• Streams
• Pools of water
• Valles and hills
• Wheat
• Barley
• Vines
• Figs
• Pomegranate
• Olive oil
• Honey
• Iron
• Copper

We can tick the list together to confirm whether Israel has all that in the list. Do your own net search too.

• Streams or pools of  water - Water in Israel is stable thanks to the technology, however, it would be difficult to live there without these technologies that provide stable water. 
• Valleys and hills - due to the size of this land it seems mountains are not as described in this verse again.
• Wheat - Yes Israel has wheat but it depends on the rainfall.
• Barley - Not clear as to whether it is farmable or not. Wikipedia does not list it in the crops produced there
• Vines - There are vines in Israel
• Figs - there are figs also
• Pomegranate - It is not in large numbers
• Olive oil - Yes, there is olive oil
• Honey - Yes there is honey
• Iron - no this is one of the rocks not existing. 
• Copper - yes there is copper

The amount of some of the productions is too small and I wonder why Moses would mention that the land had those in abundance?

I can say the promised land according to my search is clearly not Israel. The land has some similar fruits, etc but it clearly lacks some. If these were in abundance back then what happened now?

So I will say the promised land is still a mystery for now.