Maxi Photo Caption Results Are In!
Congrats to our three finalists! Help us figure out who should win the top prize of a $25 giftcard to Amazon.com. Voting will close at 12noon EST on Friday, July 5th so get your vote in before it is too late! Who should win the Israel Outdoors photo caption contest? Update: Congrats to…
Read MoreTime for Another Photo Caption Contest
All of that Maxi lovin’ yesterday inspired us to hold our second ever photo caption contest. THE RULES Submit your photo caption either by leaving a comment below or by e-mailing [email protected]. Make sure to include your full name as well as the date and year of your trip. You must submit this caption by…
Read MoreFive Ways to Keep in Touch
Wow, more then half our our expected 5,000 participants of the summer season have already left on their Israel Outdoors trips and it is not yet July! For those of you who have already gone on trips, below are some suggestions from Group TL-27-537 alumna Tara Witt on how to keep in touch with all…
Read MoreWe are the Champions!
On June 6th, several Israel Outdoors groups participated in Taglit-Birthright Israel’s first ever Sports Mega Event. Below is an account from Yaniv Havusha, staffer of Israel Outdoors group TL-28-447, the gold winners of the event. Anyone who has ever gone on a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip with Israel Outdoors will tell you what an amazing experience…
Read MoreTake Me to a Better Place
Israel’s technology industry has been getting a lot of attention in the past few days due to Google’s recent purchase of Israeli navigation company Waze. Another media darling of the Israeli tech industry is electric car company Better Place. Better Place is a revolutionary electric car company business that pioneered the idea of switching out…
Read MoreIt is All in the Cloud
We asked some of our recent Israel Outdoors participants: If you had to describe your experience with Israel Outdoors in one tweet (140 characters or less), what would you say? We got some fantastic responses which we have collected into the following wordle (or word cloud). The bigger the word in the wordle, the more…
Read MoreIts a Lovely Day for a Parade
This past Sunday twenty Israel Outdoors alumni joined Taglit-Birthright Israel and El Al on their float in the annual Salute to Israel Parade in New York City. There were t-shirts, there were flags, there were antics. Hilarity ensued. Check out the photos below. Check out our ride! Transport by float is really the only…
Read MoreWedding Anniversary – Israel Outdoors Style
Rachel and David Ortiz celebrated their one year wedding anniversary while in Israel with Israel Outdoors group TL-26-333 in May of 2012. Thank you Rachel for sharing her experience. Congrats on your recent second anniversary. Wishing you many more! We really couldn’t have asked for a better way to celebrate one year of marriage than…
Read MoreStaffer’s Wish Comes True
Congratulations to Israel Outdoors Staffer Joseph Shamash for the success of his video One Wish Jerusalem! This video, has been reviewed by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz and has already been viewed over 130,000 times on Youtube. Joseph hits the streets of Jerusalem and asks Muslims, Jews, Christians, etc. if you could have one wish filled today…
Read MoreUpdate From Israel
Check out the following update from a group currently in Israel. Thank you to Jessica Segal for sharing with us. Shalom from Israel! It’s hard to believe that the group started off more than 24 hours ago at the Atlanta airport where they met their staff Aliza Kaiman, Jessica Katz and Meredith Lefkoff. After a…
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