Posts by Sara Beth Levin Weller

We landed smoothly and met with Benzi, our tour guide. Things are going well, and the participants are opening up more and more to each other. We’re looking forward to an amazing next few days.

Hello, We arrived in Tel Aviv yesterday at 11am and everything has gone extremely well since arrival.  When we arrived we quickly found our staff/security/driver and then did a quick tour of Tel Aviv and then made our way to Jaffa where we did a tour before heading to the hotel. After checking in we…

Dear families: We’ve landed in Israel and have already had a great almost 24 hours! We met our tour guide, Hagai, at Ben Gurion Airport and hit the ground running with a tour of Jaffa and some free time to explore this ancient city. After some time to rest and get settled in our hotel…

Arrival in Israel!

Most of us have just landed back home, while the rest of us are continuing to travel around Israel and around the world. All of us, however, cannot stop thinking about the incredible memories we have just created on our 10-day trip around Israel. Our last blog left us with our group traveling down to…

Wow! In the blink in of an eye and half the trip is behind us! On Thursday, we picked up our Israeli soldiers and our group was finally complete! They fit in perfectly and have become friends already! We explored Jerusalem, visited the Western Wall, and experienced both day life and nightlife at Machane Yehuda.…

We have officially ended our time in the north! Day One was a LONG day, where most of us were up for over 30 hours straight! We enjoyed a spiritual awakening in the holy city of Tzfat and had some of our first delicious Israeli food! After that we traveled to Tzippori and went ATVing! We…

It’s been an incredible and very busy few days for group TL-46-510! Right after landing in Israel, we drove straight to the North where we went rafting, hiking, and touring around the area. After an amazing Shabbat experience in Tiberias, we headed to Tzfat, one of the four holy cities in Israel, where we had…

Today was another amazing day! We woke up to Israeli breakfast and we were off to Tzfat. We spent the day learning about Tzfat and meeting some amazing people. We then were off to an ATV ride and had dinner on the Sea of Galilee. We finished our day with a program talking about our…

Day 2 Theme borders and neighbors…  We started today with a trip to the northern Golan where we went to an outlook on Har Ben Tal overlooking the Syrian border.  While there our tour guide, Hannan, taught us more about the history of Israel, its establishment, and its relationship with bordering countries. We also learned about…