Last week we split into our Chavaya groups and I was in Tikkun Olam. The word Tikkun Olam means repairing the world and through the four day I had with this group I learned that Tikkun Olam is not only the physical act of doing community service but also making connections with people and learning about the issues to help solve them.

If I had to think of every moment from this trip and pick out my favorite moment, it wouldn’t be the desert, or Jerusalem, it wouldn’t even be seeing my friends for the first time in a year, it would be singing with them. As we hiked up the enormous, rocky Mountains in the Negev desert, I was terrified.

By Mya Levin, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 3 Hi, my name is Mya Levin and for my chavaya I chose Yam l' Yam, also known as Sea to Sea, which is a four day hiking trip from the Sea of Galilee to the Mediterranean. We literally jumped right in! We took a very...

By Max Nemoy, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 3 Last week our group separated into our preferred Chavaot. I chose to participate in Gadna and I can truly say that this experience changed me and my perspective of the IDF. I thought it would be very difficult and it...

By Trevor Siegel, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 7 We arrived to the Bedouin experience in sweltering heat; an inconvenience that have now become a normality. As we approached the complex of tents, the first thing that caught our eyes were the camels. Rows and rows...