gap year in israel

Weekly Updates – Jerusalem March 29, 2018

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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

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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 […]

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 […]

Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv March 9, 2018

Hello Parents, Spring is almost here and things are beginning to bloom. Here are last week’s highlights week: We started the week with an “uplifting workshop” for the Mind and Body Track in which the students had to create an optimistic environment and look for opportunities. In the evening, the madrichim met with the students […]

Student of the Year – Heidi David

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Hi y’all! I’m Heidi David from Atlanta, Georgia. I loved last semester in Jerusalem and now I’m loving life in Tel Aviv! I went to public school all of my life, so going on a gap year in Israel was a surprise to most of my peers, but it has definitely been one of the […]

Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv February 16, 2018

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Shalom Shalom! What a week it’s been! With what feels like half of our students in Ethiopia, Aardvark Tel Aviv has noticeably downsized. But what we lacked in numbers this week we made up for in spirit and activities. Sunday was a great day of the regular internship program. At this point, all the students […]

Weekly Update – Tel Aviv February 2, 2018

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Shalom Parents, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Shay-El and I’m the Assistant Director of Aardvark Israel. Since Eyal is on leave, in him place I’m honored to share the highlights from the past week: Last Shabbat, the Selah group had its first Shabbaton of the semester. We went to a […]

Weekly Updates – Jerusalem December 22, 2017

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Dear Parents, I can’t believe that the Jerusalem experience will soon be over, but we still had plenty to do this week. Here are the highlights: On Monday night we had a Hanukkah shirt making and Sfinge Donut making session. Sfinge is a Moroccan Hanukkah donut. We had so much fun making donuts and making […]

Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv November 23, 2017

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Dear parents The week is about to end but before it does I would like to tell you all about it! Last Shabbat we took 30 students away for a Shabbat experience on Kibbutz Hanaton. Selah, our Jewish identity track, goes away once a month for Shabbat but this time they opened their doors to […]

Weekly Update – Tel Aviv March 9, 2017

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Shalom Parents, March has arrived together with spring. I am telling you this because at Aardvark we celebrate the arrival of the spring with “Break Out March” You may ask “what exactly is that?” It is a platform we created for the students to help them to take a step forward, leave their comfort zone and do […]