Etgar: Challenge
FAM Trip to Israel
Our group at the Culinarium Restaurant in the Cardo, the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. Front: Jordan (Houston) Second Row: Ilene and Bob Miner (PA), Dave (NY), me, Susan (NJ), Anne (NJ), and Jack (Toronto) Back: Ezra (guide) and Stephanie Lisa (Portland) is hiding in the back between Ilene and Dava.
Me at the Culinarium, a tourist restaurant that has since gone out of business.
Jerusalem
Dave putting a wish into the wall
Ahava (Love) Sculpture at the Israel Museum
The Garden of Lost Communities was completed when we returned to Yad Vashem three years after my first visit.
Tel Aviv
 Gravesite of Yitzhak Rabin |  We were in Tel Aviv on the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. |
Beit HaShita
Arieh Ben-Gurion, grand nephew of David Ben-Gurion, teaches us a lesson at the kibbutz, Beit Hashita
Ein Gedi
Camp directors floating in the Dead Sea. From the left: Dava, Jack, Lisa, Stephanie, and Jordan
Tzippori
Tzippori lies in the western part of Galilee. This is part of the archeological park that dates back to the 3rd century.
Neot Kdumim
The Biblical Nature Reserve
We played the students as we explored the Biblical Nature Reserve, using nature to teach us about the Bible. Ann, from the NJYCamps, blows a horn.
Safed
Golan Heights
Memorial to those slain in the 6-day war
Metulla
 We visited the Canada Centre, where the students on the Etgar program will come to ice skate. |  Here are Rachel and her friend, Lauren, skating in the Canada Centre three years later on their Etgar trip. |
Masada
The bath house in Masada
Har Halutz
We visited a community village and resort in the north. It certainly didn't look like Israel with log cabins and Swiss chalets. It was the brain child of American, Hal Appelbaum, who spoke to us about youth groups staying here, including my son on the first camp trip to Israel.
Israeli Counselors
Tel Aviv
 From the left: Israeli counselor, me, Ariela Rosen (American staff studying in Israel), Israeli counselor, and Naomi Nahmed. These staff members were from the American-Israeli Camp Exchange (AICE). |  They invited one Israeli counselor, or schlichim, to meet with us on our last night at the Slik Club. Erez Yeminy is to my right. |
ENGLAND
Camp America
Rachel and me at 10 Downing Street
 Me getting ready for the Camp America staff fair in London, waist bag and all! |  Rachel at Granada Studios in Manchester |
London
Outside Buckingham Palace waiting for the Changing of the Guards
Guards getting ready for the ceremony
Manchester
Dressing room at Granada Studios. Granada was sold to the BBC in 2013, and the Manchester studio was closed.
