Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv April 24, 2018
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 at […]
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 […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv April 16, 2018
Dear Parents, I would like to share some of what we have been doing this past week. On Sunday the counselors met with their students for the weekly apartment meetings and an activity. They spoke about the coming weeks in Israel, which include Yom HaShoah to remember the Holocaust, Yom HaZikaron to remember Israel’s fallen […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem April 16, 2018
Dear Parents, We hope everyone had a wonderful Passover holiday! This week in Jerusalem, it was great to hear from all the students about their adventures and celebrations during the time off. We had a very busy week, with so much going on! This time of year in Israel is always an exciting one with […]
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 […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem March 29, 2018
Dear Parents, Today is the start of Spring Break and all the students are on the way to celebrate Passover – some at home, some with friends, some are traveling within Israel and some outside of Israel. Here are this week’s highlights: On Sunday afternoon the culture committee met and continued planning the Passover Seder. […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv March 29, 2018
Shalom Parents and Chag Sameach! Today is the start of Spring Break and all the students are on the way to celebrate Passover – some at home, some with friends, some are traveling within Israel and some outside of Israel. However, here are some highlights from our past week: Last Shabbat, the Selah students spent […]
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 […]