Last night I went to a play at the נא לגעת (English: Nalaga’at, Lit: Please Touch) center in Tel Aviv. The play was entitled “Not by Bread Alone”, it started out in a bakery and showed people baking bread, then they put the bread into the oven and while the bread is baking we see the dreams of [...]
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Yesterday I went to the Weitzman and the Israeli Maritime college. It was supposed be a day themed around Israeli science. However it really wasn’t, the stuff we did at the Weizmann we could have seen at any normal science museum. The stuff we saw at the Maritime college was really cool, but it was [...]
Last week we went in to the desert to see one of the main things in the Zionist dream. Making the desert bloom. We left campus on Wednesday and went to this place called Revivim. Revivim is an really old kibbutz that was setup as an experiment to see if Jews could live in the [...]
Last Thursday was יום העצמאות(Israel’s independence day). It was a lot of fun, at night I went to a concert the the park and heard lots of bands play (the park was really crowded, I didn’t know that Hod Ha’Sharon was that big), the next day I went to the beach and went swimming and [...]
Last week, Wednesday was יום הזכרון לחללי מערכות ישראל ונפגעי פעולות האיבה (day of remembrance for the soldiers that have fallen and the fallen victims of terror). It was the most meaningful day that I spent in Israel so far. The thing with Yom Ha’ Zikron is that pretty much everyone in Israel is effected, [...]
Normally people on Israel Trips go on this thing called yam (sea) el(to) yam(sea). They start at one side of Israel and touch the sea there, then they hike to the other side of Israel and touch the sea there. It normally takes 4 days and it is a lot of fun. However our group got [...]
During the past 3 days I was hiking and camping, I also went to the dress rehearsal for the official independence ceremony of the state. Tonight I went to the ceremony for the day of remembrance that was put on by the city of Hod Ha’ Sharon (where I have been living for the past [...]
One long blast to remember the 6 million who were murdered A movie of the Siren that sounds every year in Israel on Yom Ha’ Shoah in memory of those who died in the holocaust. This is an HD video (go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQNXz… then make it play in full screen) and was filmed in Hod [...]
Today was יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה (in English: Yom Ha’Zekron La’Shoah Veh La’Gevurah, lit: day for the remembrance of the destruction and the heroism, aka: holocaust remembrance day). It was a day of mixed emotions for me. I was kind of happy to be back in Israel, but it was also really sad because I kept thinking of [...]