On Thursday (last week) I went to Bet Hashomer and the Lebanese/Israeli border. Now the question that you are asking yourself now is most likely “Nate, why were you near the Lebanese border?” Well, I’ll get to that later.
So, at Bet Hashomer we learned about how the Jews organized groups of guards during the 2nd aliha. We also went out into a grass field and there our male counselor Etan showed us some knife moves that he learned in the army. After he showed us we got to try them out on each other. But for some reason they did not trust us with knifes so we had to use plastic spoons instead.
After that I went to go hiking next to Lebanon. The place that we went to was called Tanur Falls. It was this really nice water fall. Before we want hiking we learned about the border from our female counselor Orly. She taught us about how the border works and about how Hezbollah is the group in charge of the border. (Which explained why there was a Hezbollah flag on the other side)
Being on the border was kind of scary, but I felt safe because not only was our normal guard there but there was also a group of about 10 border soldiers in the area.