Today, 21 January, CAARI went to community service in the morning, following lunch toured the IDC, in Herzlia, one of Israel’s private colleges. Our dinner was a middle eastern culinary experience with dinner at Maganda, a Yemenite restaurant in Kerem HaTemanim in Tel Aviv.
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| Rosalie on right hand side with Nancy, Joan & Bart |
interference at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
students whose families had come to Israel from Ethiopia..walking for four months to get to Sudan and then waiting to get into Israel…2 of the girls had been born in Israel…..and they were all Jewish and loved Israel….and were asked about apartheid here…..and while there is still some prejudice that they have felt, things are getting better all the time. The young women were really inspirational….and it was a treat to listen to them.
spoke with us about admissions and how they look into what kids have done in the past. In Israel, they go to college after 3 years in the army, so their army experience counts a lot. He was charming and funny and he joined our guide to stay with us the rest of the afternoon. Next we went into a beautiful lecture hall to listen to a lecture on Turkey……interesting, After the lecture, was
school hosts an AIPAC chapter (later found out, the only one in Israel), The dean was asked about Obama and Netanyahu……He declined to get into the personality issues, but told us than in the past 8 years the military support from U.S. has been forthcoming more quickly than ever and that now Israel’s relationship regarding military support is the best it has been in the 8 years…..that we do not know what is going on behind closed doors….He mentioned one piece of equipment that people thought was under discussion, but was already in the hands of the Israeli soldiers.
