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Today I went to see the movie “You don’t mess with the Zohan”. It was funny, and after being in Israel for 4 months I understood a lot of the jokes that the other people in the theatre did not understand. However that is not to say that the audience did not understand the jokes that only Jews would understand, this is understandable as most of the audience looked and acted Jewish (except for a few people who looked very out of place).

At first I thought that the movie was giving Israel good PR. It showed how awesome the defence forces are and it showed Israelis trying for peace. But it also had many bad points, it showed Jewish Israelis trying to cheat Americans who were buying electronics and it also showed a soldier in the IDF stealing from a Palestinian who spat at him.

On a different note…

Tonight is the start of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. And because I am no longer in Israel that means that I have to get the pleasure of celebrating two days of the holiday. This means two days of yom tov and no electricity…yay. (I hope that you can sense the sarcasm)

Today I went to school and saw people who I have not seen for 4 months. It was really nice to see how people have changed and grown. I also got my yearbook and noticed that the TIF page and the page about the 10th grade shabbaton had the same descriptions that last year’s did (For example the TIF page says that we left for Israel in 2007 and that there are 39 people on the program, they are only 36 and we left on Feb, 28, 2008). The mistakes are kind of funny, but I wonder if the yearbook editors had something against the tenth grade. hmm……(jk)

Yes, I am back home. But I can’t sleep so I have decided to write about what I did during my last few days in Israel.

Last week I heard from this person from an organization called the David project. He talked to us about how to defend Israel in public. He showed us examples of miss reporting in the media about Israel and he also showed us some Palestinian T.V. It was really scary to see children being educated to kill Jews. (If you want to see some hate T.V for yourself then go to http://pmw.org.il/)

We also went river rafting on one of the rivers that feeds into the Jordan and we went to an army border base and got to play on a real working armed personnel carrier. We also learned about the second Lebanon war.

On Sunday and Monday this week I was at school taking my core final. On Tuesday I went to the beach and packed, at night we had a final banquet where we said goodbye to our teachers and staff. On Wednesday we went to Mt. Herzl and saw the graves of the people that we had learned about, including Michael Levin, a student who had learned at Muss who went to the army and was killed in the second Lebanon war. After that we went to the Herzl museum, went to a goodbye dinner in Jerusalem and had a final class discussion where we wrote letters to ourselves that we are going to get around Rosh HaShana. Following that we went to the airport and got on the plane home. On the plane we saw our Gadna commander’s commander; she was embarrassed and ended up sitting next to some of us.

(On a side note: If you are looking for the final montage that was shown at the banquet it will be up in a day or two)