Shalom, Welcome to Shnupdate number 3. We’re halfway through week two and we all have more colour since the last update even our token ginger (Josh). Since we last spoke, we met the Shinshinim. They are the group of Israelis, our age, who volunteer for a year after school and before their army service. It was really lovely to meet fellow gap year participants who are also having such a corona’fied time. They ran an exciting session for us on Thursday evening that ended up bei

Hello! This week we finally moved on from quarantine to Kibbutz Lotan. At Lotan, every day is structured very similarly. The days start early and are packed full of activities, but we get a break after lunch and our evenings are often free. We left the hostel for the first time since arriving on Friday to get our Covid test that, if negative, meant that we would be allowed out of quarantine after 10 days. It was great to get out of the hostel and see the area, even if we coul

Shalom! Welcome to our very first Shnat Tzuf Update, this will be the first of many ShnUpdates. This week has been a pretty crazy one for all eight of us and one unlike any other first week of Shnat. Since the day we arrived, we have been in quarantine, in Modi’in, and we have had sessions on Zoom run by several external educators as well as the Netzer team. Friday 9th was a special day for one of our Shnatties. It was Julian’s birthday! We tried to make it as exciting as pos