Alumni of the Month – Mimi Baron
My name is Mimi Baron and I’m from Sydney, Australia. I attended Moriah College and graduated at the end of 2022. I am a recent alumna of the Aardvark Israel 2022 Spring Semester and am currently in the PLUS program. I wanted to go on a gap year in Israel to deepen my connection with […]
Alumni of the Month – Sarea Sokolove
My name is Sarea Sokolove and I am from Albuquerque, New Mexico. I did Aardvark from August 2022-May 2023. I decided to do Aardvark Israel because truthfully, I was not ready for college and I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I decided to choose Aardvark because it gives you the […]
Alumni of the Month – Eli Colton
My name is Eli Colton and I’m from Seattle. I am a recent Alumni of Aardvark 2022-2023 and am excited to share my experience and story of my past year. I chose to partake in a gap year because I felt like I had missed out on a year of normal life during Covid. I […]
Alumni of the Month – Camila Barmaymon
My name is Camila Barmaymon and I want to tell you a little about my experience at Aardvark Israel. I had the pleasure of participating in Spring Semester 2022 and then going to Camp NJY in Pennsylvania, United States. At the beginning of the year I was a little nervous because I didn’t know who […]
Alumni of the Month – Dani Starr
My name is Dani Starr, and I was born and raised in San Diego, California. I now live in Israel on Kibbutz Tlalim which is about half an hour west of Be’er Sheva. I came on Aardvark Israel in 2020-2021.The initial reason I decided to take a gap year was because of Corona. I was […]
Alumni of the Month – Jacob Leon Cherny
My name is Jacob Cherny and I am from Perth, Australia I chose to go on a gap year in Israel as it has been a dream of mine for a long time. I’ve grown up in quite an isolated community with role models who have all taken a year of their life to experience […]
Alumni of the Month – Emily Willrich
My name is Emily Willrich, and I am originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts. I came on Aardvark in Spring 2021. Originally, I never planned to go on a gap year. Then COVID hit, and I wanted to make sure I would get a full in-person college experience. After a lot of thought, I decided to take […]
Alumni of the Month – Benjamin Eden Busse
My name is Benjamin Eden Busse and I’m from London, England and I went to Hasmonean Boys School.As the great Greek philosopher Diogones once said “A reasonable life is one lived in accordance with nature and with one’s natural inclinations”. I chose to follow this ideology which led me to go on a gap year […]
Alumni of the Month – Lauren Cayle
My name is Lauren Cayle and I’m from Milwaukee, Wisconsin but I now to go school in Washington, DC. I did my gap year with Aardvark Israel last school year, 2020-2021. I chose Aardvark because I didn’t want to do online classes in college and I wanted a year to explore and grow without the […]
Alumni of the Month – Sophie Harris
My name is Sophie Harris and I am from San Diego, California. I was on Aardvark Israel last year, of Fall 2020/spring 2021. After having the absolute BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE, I completely fell in love with Israel and decided to move here! I am now currently living in Tel Aviv with my best […]