Tour the Habo Way
85 people from all over the UK are currently on the Habonim Dror month programme in Israel and are having the time of their lives. The 2 groups started their journey in Jerusalem, where they found out about biblical Jerusalem, before having a lovely Shabbat at the Kotel.
The group then found out about the beginnings of Zionism and have been in the north of Israel this week, visiting Habonim Dror Kibbutzim and the group were very lucky to go to the co-existence seminar at Givat Haviva. The group have been to the Lebanese and Syrian borders and the groups have had many debates with many speakers about giving back the Golan, should they or should they not? as well as speaking with solders about last years Lebanese war.
One of the highlights maws when the tour groups went to the World Habonim Dror Day, which is an event for all the members of Habonim Dror from around the world that are in Israel on Tour or on the Habonim Dror gap year scheme (shnat). Over 700 people attended the event from North America, South America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, France, Holland and of course the UK. The event was on the beech beside Hannah Senesh’s kibbutz and the day was fun filled and action packed.
To see photos from Yom Habo click here.
Rachel Lentin, from Manchester commented, “The world habo day was such fun, when you come on tour with habo you are not only with people from the UK, I had no idea how big Habonim Dror was around the world and I gave me the chance to get merchandise from all over the world.”
Lauren Harris from St Annes said, “I have never been on Habonim Dror before and I am so happy with my experience on machaneh Yisrael. I have learnt so much about the country and have made some life long friends, I just don’t want my summer to end.”
This year tour is made up of people from Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, London, Southport and others and new movement worker and current tour leader Daniel Filson from Manchester stated, “The tour is much more diverse than in recent years and I truly believe tat our fantastic programme is the reason more and more people are joining Habonim Dror.”
For daily reports on tour or for any information including Habonim Dror summer camps go to www.habodror.org.uk.
To see photo's of tour click here.
To see the daily update of what the tour people are getting up to click here.
