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Our Machaneh Etgar Experience
Written by Ari Kim-Leavitt, Yallah! 2024 Participant When we first arrived as a group yesterday at Kibbutz Eshbal, I had no idea what this experience would be like. I assumed we’d just go camping and hiking. However, it turned out to be so much more. All the...
Highlights from July 9th and July 14-15th
Highlights of the past week from two of our 2024 Yallah! Participants. Written by Madi Goldman Despite waking up at four in the morning, our group had a blast hiking in the Red Canyon in Eilat. The path was not only filled with beautiful scenery but also enriched by...
Rabbi Josh Weinberg shares a Shabbat Message with Yallah! Teens
Rabbi Josh Weinberg (he/him) serves as the Vice President of the URJ for Israel and Reform Zionism and is the...
Highlights from July 10th- 13th in Israel
Written by Sophia Ehrenberg, Yallah! 2024 Participant Welcome to Eilat! The southernmost point of our homeland, where you can see Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt all at the same time. This hot corner of the country gives us a true perspective on where we are in this...
A Conversation with Rabbi Rick Jacobs
Our campers were lucky enough to spend a Shabbat with Rabbi Rick Jacobs on Kibbutz Mashaabei Sadeh in the Negev. "Many had just arrived in Israel from Poland where they experienced the soul shattering sites of the Holocaust. Our Shabbat service was spirited, our...
Week 1 Recap
July 8th, Ein Avdat and Sde Boker
Written by Leo Kushnir and Nathan Liebman, Yallah! 2024 Participants We started with an early morning in the kibbutz, which was actually our last day waking up here before heading off to Eilat. As usual, we woke up relatively early and got together with friends to...
Experiencing Auschwitz after 10/7
Written by Eitan Klieger, Yallah! 2024 Participant *This article originally appeared in The Times of Israel Today I walked through Auschwitz. Our teen group went through the gates and saw the camp with our own eyes. We walked the same path that one million Jews...
First full day in Israel
Written by: Lily Gartenlaub, Daria Blyveis and Alex Gutman, Yallah! 2024 Participants Hi all! It’s Lily, Daria, and Alex writing the first teen blog of the summer! We woke up bright and early in our kibbutz rooms and got breakfast together. Then we bussed to...