Day 4 in Israel

Bob Loblaw’s Birthright Blog
Today was our fourth day in Israel. Our wake-up call was at 7:00 am, which naturally meant that no one got out of bed until 8:00. Immediately after eating breakfast we were introduced to our soldiers. We are given the privilege to be accompanied by eight soldiers. The girls swooned with joy when they were introduced to the five male soldiers. We then proceeded to the Golan Heights for our jeep tours. It’s a good thing we took last night easy because we can honestly say that we were in for a rough ride. We traveled along mine fields fenced off by signs that said in English and Hebrew “Danger, mine fields” and our tour guide proceeded to tell us that the Arabic translation on the sign actually said “picnic area.” We then were treated to a gourmet lunch at McDonalds. After which we went on a hike in the old city of Tel Dan, the ancient northern border of Israel. Our tour guide walked us through the steps that allowed Israel to identify the city as the one that was written about in the torah; this land was really given to us as our Jewish birthright. We then proceeded to go to a mountain that overlooked Syria in which we were able to walk through a bunker used by the Israeli soldiers. We then watched a short 20 minute film about the Yom Kippur war, although short it was a very intense and moving film. On the bus ride back everyone passed out due to exhaustion from our non-stop day. We look forward to spending time with our new additions of bus 857! More to come tomorrow…. –Steve Holt! (chechaw chechaw chechaw)
Written by: Jared, Allison, and Jason
Spiced up by: Maya and Hadas