Posts by Jake
Yom Hazikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day
Israel has just marked the solemn occasion of Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terrorism. Yizkor (or “to remember”) is a prayer recited in the memory of the 25,578 fallen soldiers and terror victims. Twice during the holiday a siren is sounded throughout the country: once at 8…
Read MoreBill’s Baller Birthright Blog
Bill Sacks, a participant on TL-27-52 (an Israel By Foot trip which returned this past Friday) sent us the link to his awesome blog. Thanks for sharing, Bill. Looks like you had an awesome trip!
Read MoreStunning Photos from a Winter Israel Outdoors Trip
No clever caption is needed here, as the following album speaks for itself with its amazing photos that capture the people and places of an Israel Outdoors Birthright experience in a very special way. Our sincere thanks to the very talented Josh Corn, a participant on TL-27-420, who returned from Israel a couple weeks ago.…
Read MoreNew York City…Meet Amit
We love highlighting our rockstar North American peer staff members whenever possible. In the case of Amit Shuker, one of our “veteran” staffers who has led over six Israel Outdoors Birthright trips, Rutgers University Business School took care of that for us when they put his smiling face on a billboard in NYC recently. Mazel…
Read MoreA Match Made in the Holy Land
Here at Israel Outdoors, we love hearing our trips described as “life changing.” For many of us, the experience of traveling to Israel for the first time ever (or perhaps just for the first time with our peers) on Taglit-Birthright Israel is an opportunity to make lots of new friends. In some cases, the magic…
Read MoreThanks for an Amazing Summer!
Here at Israel Outdoors, we’re busy gearing up for the Winter/Spring 2012-13 season. We would be remiss, however, if we didn’t pause to take a breath after one of our biggest seasons on record. One week ago today marked the official end of the Summer 2012 season, when our final group of the season touched…
Read MoreMy Birthright Blog – Dan from New Jersey
A special thanks to Daniel Fey of Randolph, NJ, who shared with us his personal trip blog highlighting his Taglit-Birthright Israel trip with Israel Outdoors last Winter/Spring 2011-12 (TL-25-512). We wanted to pick and choose a couple posts to highlight, but quickly realized that the whole thing is fantastic! Click here to check out Dan’s…
Read MoreExcerpts from Julia’s Trip Diary
Julia Blumenthal, originally from Los Angeles, participated on TL-25-245 (Winter/Spring 2011-12) this past January. She shared a few photos from her online trip diary. Thanks, Julia! Julia with her first (GIANT) schwarma. Israel’s cuisine is a unique and delicious mix of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern, and schwarma shares the distinctive title of “national snack”…
Read MoreLost Luggage? No Problem!
We just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share this post from Levi Strauss & Co’s official corporate blog, featuring Israel Outdoors alumnus Will Roman and his unfortunate luggage fiasco. Disclaimer: while this certainly makes for a humorous post, we wish to point out that luggage issues and delays are extremely rare. 😀 We love…
Read MoreMy Taglit-Birthright Israel Trip with Israel Outdoors? Sababa.
Here at Israel Outdoors, we love that many of our participants are “creative” types. We love it even more when those creative types bring a camera along to document their experience in Israel. A special thanks to Andrew Veis (TL-26-303 – Summer 2012) for sharing this amazing video from his trip. As for the meaning…
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