Posts by Sara Beth Levin Weller

We landed and are enjoying ourselves. The group is already getting along and making friends with participants they didn’t know before. We hiked at Tel Jezreel and ate lunch at Afula where some participants tried Israeli shawarma for the first time and LOVED IT. We also had a great time hanging out in the hotel…

Bus 847 has had such a packed first 2 days in Israel! We arrived bright and early Tuesday morning, met our incredible tour guide, Bar, and headed up north! We started off in Caesarea and said the “shehecheyanu” blessing overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. From there, we strapped on our hiking shoes and ventured into Little…

Final Update: Wow, what a fantastic journey together! Here’s what we have been up to. We woke up early to hike Masada to watch the sunrise. We learned the history, celebrated bar/bat mitzvahs, and enjoyed time to mediate and reflect upon our time together. We learned about the Ancient mountain-top fortress. After this, we had…

We landed in Eretz Yisrael at 4am with our excited group of 21 participants and 2 staffers! We met our amazing tour guide, Reut, medic/guard Shmuel, and bus driver, Eli. After some quick ice breakers we were on our way to Casarea National Park. We saw ancient Roman ruins while we felt our first sea…

Hello! Everything on Bus 257 is going so well!! Everyone really enjoyed ATVing, rappelling, rafting, and river walking. Today, we also visited Tzfat– everyone LOVED visiting Abraham at the Tzfat Gallery of Mystic Arts. Here are some photos. Alexa

Hello from Bus #257!  We landed around 4:30am this morning. We visited Caesarea, Zichron Yaakov, and Beit Rimon (where our Tour Educator lives)! He invited all 40 of us over for snacks. We just wrapped up our Speed Friending activity, and are heading to dinner soon. We’re all extremely tired, but it was an amazing…

After an amazing three days in the north, we arrived to the holiest city, Jerusalem. The last stop before we got to Jerusalem was the Baha’i Gardens in Haifa (pictured here). Yesterday was a very special day known as Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). There was a flag parade and thousands of people on the streets…

Today we packed up and left the amazing residence at a kibbutz and spent our morning in Tzfat Old City! We were in awe of the beauty and architecture of one of the holy cities in the land of Israel. After our lovely morning we headed out to meet our Mifgash, or Israeli friends! We…

After a cozy night in the Bedouin tents, we hiked Masada and congratulated a whole team of B’Nai Mitzvah participants, then headed down from the fortress to feed some camels and load back onto the bus. We floated in the Dead Sea and meditated in the grass before spending another night under the stars camping…

March 22nd: Quest Bus 363 hit the ground running. We ate breakfast at beautiful Nof Kinneret Hotel. We left at 8am sharp to tour and hike The Banias Nature Reserve. Moran, our Israeli tour guide extraordinaire, taught us about the origin of the land. Originally it was called “Panias” but the Greeks changed the pronunciation…