TL-46-62 Update 1

#Bus62 has arrived in Israel!  After an uneventful flight filled with some sleep, screen time, and shmoozing, we arrived in Tel Aviv to formally start our trip. There are 26 participants on our trip from the Midwest, New York, and East Coast. The staff who traveled from New York and will be with our group the entire trip are Solomon Zisser, a Springboard Ezra Jewish Education Fellow at the Hillel of the University of Rochester, and Rabbi Daniel Schwartz,  a rabbi at Temple Shir Shalom in Michigan. We were joined in Israel by our guide for the trip, Marina Lipkind; our bus driver Hamza; our security guard Yuval; and our Rakaz (field coordinator), Emily. After taking our covid tests and a wonderful lunch spread at the airport, we began our journey north to Tiberias where we will begin the touring part of our trip. Tonight’s plans include a group meeting, dinner, and an early night in at the hotel as we await results from our covid tests and can then leave quarantine.