Jacobs in Israel – Bus 4

Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial outside of Jerusalem, tells a story of the Jewish people and their persecution. On July 6th, through original artifacts, survivor interviews, and expert tour guides, the Sci-Tech Israel teens learned about the Holocaust through stories and faces.

We visited one of the offices of Airobotics, a company that has pioneered a new way for companies to take advantage of drone technology. Drones have many useful commercial applications, for example they can be used for security surveillance, as machinery inspection systems, or for emergency responders to do reconnaissance.

My name is Emma Green and I am from Eisner Camp. This is my first time in Israel and I am on Bus 5. My first day of Israel, despite being thoroughly exhausted from the flight, was nothing but spectacular. When we finally got to the hotel around 9am, I slept until 2pm, which was needed.

By Rachel Schwartz, NFTY in Israel Participant, Bus 4 Bug spray is your new best friend Doing your business in nature is how you’re going to make all your friends Pack tissues...and lots of them (dude wipes if you’re a cool dude) Don’t be ashamed of singing songs as a...

I’m a city kid, and, if you were to ask me a week ago, the last place I’d want to spend my summer was the desert; sleeping on dirt and rocks, hiking up mountains, and living in the grueling heat, miles away from civilization. And yet, it was there that I found myself, spending four days with my camp friends on our trip to Israel.

The teens have been exploring the Desert. Tuesday morning the group travelled to Kibbutz Grofit, a town located on a small hilltop in the middle of the world’s longest and deepest valley that extends over three thousand miles from Syria all the way to Mozambique, Africa and is therefore called the Great Syrian-African Rift Valley.