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 west of the southern part […]
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 for the closing ceremony of […]
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 who found it, and at […]
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 our schedule. After the students […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem April 24, 2018
Shalom Dear Parents, Here in Israel it has been a packed week including both Memorial Day and Independence Day. Marking these days, the students felt the unification of the country during this special time. Here are the highlights from this week (which was almost every day this week). Ready? Here we go: On Sunday evening […]
Student of the week – Yaeli Rabinowitz
Hi everyone! I’m Yaeli, from London, England. I am lucky enough to be currently living in Florentine Tel Aviv. Florentine is one of the most interesting places – both during the day & night filled with a variety of cultures. I have been lucky enough to participate in both semesters of aardvark and experienced the […]
Student of the week – Jess Dworcan
Hey everyone, my name is Jess Dworcan from Johannesburg, South Africa. Coming on this program was not a very well organised, structured or thought out decision. The day the program started I was on the phone with Simon explaining that I may not come at all but decided last minute that I would be missing […]
Alumni of the Month – Josh Pincus
Hi, my name is Joshua Pincus and I am from Johannesburg South Africa. Two year ago I spent my gap year in Tel Aviv on Aardvark. Little did I know that before I attended the program, that my life would be changed forever. After finishing school, it had always been my intention to take a […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem March 23, 2018
Dear Parents, Here are this week’s highlights: On Sunday night we went to an Israeli basketball game. Hapoel Jerusalem versus the Galil Gilboa. For many of us it was the first basketball game we had been to in Israel and it was quite an experience. What made it even better was that HaPoel won!!!! Donna […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv March 23, 2018
Hello Parents, It has been an amazingly sunny week here in Aardvark Tel Aviv. Here are some of this week’s highlights: On Sunday, we had a routine day with volunteering and internships. During the apartment meetings the madrichim ran all kind of different activities. Ilay’s group discussed the Break-Out March program: each student wrote their […]