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 [...]
Below are updates from our trip leaders on trips in Israel right now!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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. :-D We love [...]
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 [...]
Here at Israel Outdoors, we love hearing from our alumni! We’re also heartened when we hear the all too common phrase used to describe the Taglit-Birthright Israel gift with Israel Outdoors: “life-changing.” In the following article, Israel Outdoors alum Josh Michaels tells us in his own words what is was that made the experience so [...]
One of the most memorable moments of our trip was doing Zumba overlooking the Holy City! We were dancing, and felt so alive, and so in touch with thousands of year of our people’s history. – Molly Weiner
Roberta “RC” Saint-Amour, who survived (and enjoyed!) her Summer 2010 Taglit-Birthright Israel trip with Israel Outdoors, is about to make her television debut as a contestant on the CBS hit reality series “Survivor”. The show, entering its 25th season, will take place in the Philippines, and premieres on Wednesday, September 19th on CBS. Best of [...]
On August 28, 2012, over 1,600 Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni and friends came together for a massive end-of-summer party at the Boat Basin Cafe, alongside the Hudson River in New York City. Along with the beautiful weather, food, and drinks, the event provided a great opportunity for former Birthright participants to reunite and reminisce about their [...]
