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Israel’s Astonishing Contributions to Food Technology

While most of us are fortunate enough to live without having to worry about food, food security is a global issue of increasing importance. As resources are used up, scientists are forever searching for ways to produce food more reliably in all sorts of conditions. This is one area where ...
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Beersheva – The South’s Hidden Gem

You don’t hear as much about Beersheva as you do Israel’s other cities, such as Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. However, it is a thriving place that deserves far more attention than it gets. The city is packed with interesting things to see and do, and it is well worth ...
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Plus Program Visit

Dear Parents, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to share with you my visit to NJY Camps, this past Friday, when I saw our lovely students: Yaeli, Josh, Rachel, Jess, Cayden, Saul, and Adam. All of them are doing great and enjoying the best summer of ...
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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical music is not something that most people would immediately associate with Israel, but the country is in fact home to one of the world’s best orchestras, and a vibrant classical music scene. The country’s leading orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, was founded back in 1936 as the Palestine Orchestra. ...
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Five of the Top Israeli Technological Innovations

Israel is famous as a start-up nation, a place that is at the forefront of technological invention and innovation. Many Israeli inventions have changed the world and new technologies are coming out of the country all of the time. Here is a look at some of Israel’s greatest innovations. Iron ...
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NYC 2018

Day 1 Dear Parents, We landed this morning and headed to our hotel in Manhattan. After checking in and settling, we went for a very American lunch at Shake Shack. Our first site for the day was The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met, as it is better known, is the ...
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Hummus

If you have never spent any significant amount of time in Israel, you probably won’t be aware just how contentious an issue hummus is. However, when you arrive for your gap year program in Israel you will soon realise that Israelis can discuss this supposedly simple food for hours on ...
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Jerusalem Weekly Letter and Lehitraot

Shalom Parents! The Aardvark Spring Semester has officially come to an end. It is bittersweet for all of us. It has been a wonderful year, but it is sad to see the students leave. Luckily, we still have a few more weeks with our Plus Program students before they head ...
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Tel Aviv Weekly Letter and Lehitraot

Dear parents, The Aardvark Tel Aviv spring semester has reached its end. Yesterday most of the students flew home, others went to visit their families or for a short vacation before making Aliya to Israel, and some went to Jerusalem to prepare for the plus program as Madrichim in summer ...
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Weekly Updates – Jerusalem May 17, 2018

Dear Parents, Sadly, our semester is soon coming to an end, and despite us not wanting it to end, soon we will back in our homes outside of Israel. While we are sad, we have very much decided to make the most of every last moment in Israel and on ...
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Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv May 17, 2018

Dear parents, We are getting closer to the end of the program, and therefore this week was dedicated to activities focused on reflecting on our time here and saying goodbye. After a whole year or semester on Aardvark, we have very much reached the point where everyone feels like family. ...
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Student of the week – Annabel

G’day everyone! My name is Annabel, and as you all can probably guess by that greeting, I am from Australia, Sydney to be specific. After being brought up surrounded by a vibrant Jewish community and attending Jewish Day school my whole life, it was basically assumed that I would take ...
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Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv May 10, 2018

Shalom Dear Parents, I hope this email finds you well. This week Eyal has been leading our Aardvark International trip to Italy, so in his place I’m more than happy to tell you about this week’s highlights. We are getting closer to the end of the year, but we are ...
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Italy 2018

Day 1 Dear Parents, Hello from Italy! For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Eyal and I’m the community manager from Aardvark Tel Aviv. I’m leading the Italy trip along with Dorin, an amazing Madricha from Jerusalem. We’ve just finished our first day in Italy. We ...
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Weekly Updates – Jerusalem May 3, 2018

Dear Parents, Well, we have had another full week on Aardvark! At Sunday evening’s apartment meetings, we spoke about the tragedy last week in Israel. Ten Israeli youths, nine girls and a boy from a pre-military academy, were killed after they were carried off by a surge in the Tzafit stream ...
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Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv May 3, 2018

Dear parents, It has been another full week packed with activities here on Aardvark Tel Aviv. Here are some of the highlights: On Sunday the Madrichim ran activities with their apartments. In the activity, the students were asked to start thinking about a little project that they would like to do ...
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Student of the week – Ben Oken

Hi! My name is Ben Oken and I am from Westlake Village California. I am currently living in Jerusalem in a neighborhood called katamon. Katamon is a quiet place with mostly families but i wouldn’t want to call any other place home. I first heard about Aardvark from my parents ...
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Berlin 2018

Day 1 Hello everyone, Our first day in Berlin has just ended and we are tired but extremely happy. After a long night with very little sleep, we landed in Berlin this morning. We were picked up at the airport, left our bags in the hotel and dove straight into ...
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Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv April 26, 2018

Shalom parents, I hope that this email finds you well. Here are some of the highlights from the past week. Sunday was a relaxing day. The Madrichim met with the students in their apartment meetings and they reflected on the Shabbaton by playing some games and making use of various ...
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Weekly Updates – Jerusalem April 26, 2018

Dear Parents, Winter has arrived. Again. We began the week with nice warm weather, and then all of a sudden, winter retuned. Thunder, lightning, and a downpour of rain! However, despite the weather, we had a pretty incredible week. Here are some highlights: In our apartment meetings on Sunday evening ...
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