Monday Aug 18 – Last day :(
We all woke up in the morning with a pit in our stomachs. These four (and for some of us, ten!!) weeks flew by so fast. Our last shiur was a review game of all the events we learned about and the halacha sources that were relevant. From the UN …
Sunday Aug 17
Shavua Tov! We have reached the end of the month and are closing the time period we have been studying. Our last topic is the 1978 Camp David Accords, when Prime Minister and \egyptian president Anwar Sadat made peace. Egypt recognized Israel (the first Arab country to do so!), Israel …
Thursday Aug 14
We had a beautiful fifth-to-last-day here. Eidah daled left super early for the traditional Eidah daled Post-color war White water rafting trip 🙂 Meanwhile, for eevryobe else – weather was perfect, peulot were fun, and shiur was about July 4, 1976 – not the celebration of the bicentennial of America, …
Wed Aug 14 – Color War Day 2
Second Day of color was intense – our chanichim were in it to win it! We had a little drizzle of rain and off a few times throughout the day, but for the most part the weather cooperated and it was a great day. Shiur today was about the team …
Tuesday Aug 12 – Color War day 1
Kibbutz vs. Yishuv! Kima was bright and early this morning at 7 am. Somehow everyone was op and at ’em fairly quickly. Whereas usually each eidah has mifkad on their own before tefilah, on the Color War days the whole camp meets for mifkad next to the Indoor Beit Knesset. …