Weekly Updates – Jerusalem December 15, 2017
Jerusalem Weekly Updates Dear Parents, Chanukah is a wonderful time to be in Israel and the students have had the chance to take full advantage of the true festival of lights. It has been a great week and we are looking forward to a few more nights of light… Here are the highlights: On Monday, as […]
Student of the Week – Julianna Mallis
Hello! My name is Julianna Mallis, and I’m from Marietta, Georgia. I knew I wanted to do a gap year in Israel since tenth grade, and I spent my remaining years of high school convincing my parents to let me. I went to a gap year fair about a year ago, and learned about a […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv November 30, 2017
Dear Parents, It has been an exciting week. We had many activities and the real highlight was our overnight trip to the north on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, before giving you more details about it, let’s start from the beginning of the week. Here we go: On Sunday we had the Add Ons’ activities. The […]
The Reforestation of Israel
Of Israel’s many accomplishments, one of the most impressive may be the reforestation of the land. From the turn of the twentieth century a huge amount of work has gone into planting trees and turning the land green. Since 1900 roughly 250,000,000 trees have been planted across Israel and it is the only county in […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv November 23, 2017
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 Updates – Tel Aviv November 17, 2017
Shalom Dear Parents, We’ve had a week full of activities and lectures, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it. At present the students are beginning to think about their plans for the future. We are starting to hear from the students that they want to study at universities in Israel. Students are […]
Student of the Week – Abby
Hi! My name is Abby Hockstein and I’m from Closter, NJ. After my gap year I will be attending Tulane University in New Orleans. Coming from a school where almost everyone goes straight to college, I never really considered taking a gap year. It was actually my parents (who both took gap years in Israel) […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv November 10, 2017
Hello Dear Parents, Another week has come to an end here on Aardvark Tel Aviv. Here are some of the week’s highlights. On Sunday the sea sports group went to the marina in Herzlia for a boat cruise. The students had an awesome time. They finished the cruise with ice cream and they all agreed […]
Lone Soldiers in the IDF
If you make Aliyah as a young person the chances are that you will have to serve in the IDF for at least six months. Due to this system, there are always a number of soldiers in the army without any immediate family in Israel, at present there are around 6,300 of them. These are […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv November 3, 2017
Dear Parents. We have had a very special and exciting week full of great activities that were enjoyed by all the students. On Sunday the Sea Sports group had a work out session on the beach. The group decided to focus on the “Sports” part of Sea Sports. The Entrepreneurship group had a workshop with an […]