Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv September 2, 2017
Dear parents, It has been an amazing week. We have had a great time meeting your kids and I’m excited to share the highlights of the week. Here we go: As you know, the students arrived throughout the day on Monday and immediately began to meet each other and the staff. For lunch we went […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem August 28, 2017
Dear Parents, We are having an exciting and interesting first day here at Aardvark Jerusalem! The students arrived safe and sound. Our building is abuzz with students getting to know each other. They have had time to unpack and rest, and we treated them to falafel and shawarma for lunch. Tonight, after our opening dinner, […]
Israel’s Thriving Startup Industry
Israel is well known as a centre of technological innovation, a fact that has earned it the title of ‘Startup Nation’. Over the last few years that have been a number of hugely successful companies that began as small Israeli startups and were later purchased for vast sums of money and became global successes. Perhaps […]
Israel’s Biggest Shopping Malls
While you are on your gap year in Israel you are bound to want to go shopping at some point or another. Both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are home to famous markets, but there are also a large number of huge shopping malls in Israel. The Dizengoff Centre was Tel Aviv’s first mall when it […]
Israel’s Escape Rooms
Escape the room games were an online hit long before they became real physical games and spread across the world. If you haven’t yet done an Escape Room, the idea is simple, you are locked in a room and have an hour to solve various puzzles that will lead to clues to help you escape. […]
Israel’s Blossoming Tourism Industry
One of the amazing things about Israel is that it attracts a huge amount of incredibly diverse tourists. People from across the world come to see Israel’s historical sites and learn more about the country’s rich history. In 2016 close to 3 million tourists came to visit Israel and tourism hit an all-time high in […]
From the Desert to the Snow in Israel
When thinking about your gap year in Israel part of you is probably visualising hot sunny days on the beach, hiking in the desert, bathing in Israel’s many natural springs and so on. However, you should also consider the fact that very often it will snow in Israel and when it does the landscape develops […]
Israel and the Olympic Games
While Israel is known for excelling at many things, sports isn’t really one of them. The country has had some success in basketball but it is certainly not known as a sporting powerhouse. However, over the years the country has managed to rack up a modestly impressive number of Olympic medals. In total Israel has […]
Life on a Kibbutz
The kibbutz movement is one of the things that made Israel so unique in its younger days and, while the movement has changed quite a lot in the last few decades, it is still a huge draw for people from all over the world and fairly unique within the world. The first kibbutz was established […]
Israelis Who Made it Big in Hollywood
Recently the new Wonder Woman film was released with the leading role played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot. A huge amount of attention was given to the fact that Gal is an Israeli, but she is by no means the first person to have grown up in Israel and then made it big in the […]