Today’s blog is written by our lovely NCSYer Shayna Travis!

Today on rescue we had a packed and inspiration filled day. We started off at Yad Vashem where we connected with our Jewish history and ancestors by learning about the holocaust and the people who went through it. Through the pictures and belongings of those Jews we rly got to see how the holocost personally effected each person and how every individual deserves to be remembered. After walking through the museum we had lunch and talked abt our experience in the museum and what learning about the holocost meant to each one of us. After that we walked to Har Hertzel were we visited the graves of Israel’s leaders and soldiers who gave up everything for our country and our freedom. At Har Hetzel we got to hear stories of great people and soldiers and were able to see what it means to love our people and our country and to be able to choose to give up everything for it.

We’re so excited to continue all this inspiration throughout our first shabbas in Israel! 

What an unbelievable day! We started off the day in Hatzalah headquarters. We met the team, and saw the facility!    It was super cool! We learned about the program and had an over all orientation from Hatzalah. Next, we took our first trip to the kotel! It was so great! Especially for those of us who had never been there before. Was a very powerful moment! Then, we had a great time in the city of David. We went through a water tunnel and got to cool off in the water! We then got to explore machaneh Yehudah (the market place). 

We then came back for an awesome educational program. 

Was a great second day and we can’t wait to continue our amazing journey! 

Wahooo! Welcome to Israel! We have just arrived in the holiest land in the world! Everyone is super pumped to start the most amazing summer! 

The plane ride Baruch Hashem was really great! Lots of bonding!

When we arrived we had our first tefillah in Israel (mincha by the bus) and then started our travels off to Yerushaliam. 

At the airport we picked up our logistics man named Shabtai. Shabtai is awesome! He’s lived in Israel his whole life and is from Efrat but knows perfect english. He helps us with all our logistics and will be with us every day. 

Once we arrived at the hotel (around 7:30pm) we had an awesome dinner and then had a great orientation! 

Everyone is super excited for tomorrow to start seeing and experiencing Israel! ??

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