Holon and Hanaton

Shavua tov! Havdalah at Kibbutz Hanaton

Reflections from Ronny and Eli: 
On Friday morning, when we went on our bus, we found that there were notes all over the bus from the Ezra students. Jerome's note made all of us tear up. We miss them already.
Then we went to the port in Tel Aviv where we went for a walk and hung out for a bit on a playground. After that we went to the Children's Museum in Holon, where there is a special exhibit called "Dialogue in the Dark."  Basically, you go on a "tour" through the exhibit in completely dark rooms, and experience everyday things just as a blind person would.  The exhibit teaches you to be more sensitive about disabilities, but also makes you realize how much people can do even if they have an impairment. Amazingly, our tour guide was actually blind.  We, on the other hand, were not used to the dark environment - at the end of the the exhibit there was this restaurant which was completely dark, and Bella's soda ended up spilling all over.  Overall it was an amazing and worthwhile experience.
After a delicious shawarma lunch at the market in Tel Aviv (where we also stocked up on snacks for Shabbat), we got to relax for  while on the ride up north, and arrived a couple hours later at Kibbutz Hanaton in the Lower Galil.  Hanaton is one of the only kibbutzim connected to Masorti/Conservative Judaism.  The guest house rooms were really big! We met other eighth graders as well as a group of 19 year old students staying at the kibbutz who were doing a gap year before enlisting in the army. We had a tour of the kibbutz and learned about its history.  Shabbat shalom!

Enjoying dancing and a concert after Shabbat on Hanaton