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Second drill!

rescueisrael July 24, 2018

Written by Ella Shapiro

Today I had a realization, the past, present and future all rely in ourselves and you may wonder how can that be, to see my point of view I will take you back into the past of the day. we first traveled to the maarat hamachpelah in chevron where Jewish history began and where our ancestors lived and died, we walked around and really took in the ideas of our partriarchs and matriarchs we then moved on to gush etzion were we learned about the people who fought for and died on Israeli land in order to take back the land that was rightfully theirs. We also experienced a drill where if there was a terrorist attack how we can respond medically to the victims. We also trained and really experienced the skills soldiers have in order to protect the country by learning krav umaga, the israeli style of defense. And of course we got to see some puppies training to become rescue dogs in the process! and finally we had a drill with rescue atvs which was so much fun, as we left the drill we witnessed the end to the day by watching a beautiful Israeli sunset. Explaining my point before we witnessed all of the stages of this world , we learned about our past which made us feel a connection in the present then leading us to be inspired and passionate to spread the amazing history of our country to future generations. Today was really an amazing and inspiring day and I feel that everyone really got something out of at least one activity if not all!