Hello. Hola. Oi. Shalom. It has been an extremely long week on machon this week. We’ve had to stay on/close to the Kiryah and only go out for essentials, to keep as safe as possible prior to our trip to Poland. Despite the challenges that this week has presented, we have all managed to try and stay positive and enjoy our classes. This has been our last full week of the regular schedule so we said some goodbyes to our teachers and some even had small parties in their classes t

We had just finished our Israel Kayom seminar, having learnt about the different societies, the theme of Social Entrepreneurship and the impact these societies have within Israel. That weekend, the South Africans had a somewhat stress-inducing experience with the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv when applying for their Polish visa, but we have yet to return to the embassy for a rematch. Our week started with a fairly calm day of classes where we started our Antisemitism presentatio

שלום חברים, It is crazy to think that it is now July and time is just flying each week. Our time on Machon has definitely become weirder, more fun and more awkward since the last update. The past weekend was filled with relaxation and travelling as half of the group visited Lotan (herein referred to as ‘home’), Ghaim was at a family wedding party and the rest stayed in the Kirya. Evie, Tali, Josh and Lily visited home and had an amazing time by the pool and living in one of t

June has come and gone and the weeks here on Shnat are truly flying by. We spent the past weekend in Tel Aviv, joining a hundred thousand others at pride on Friday. Compared to Jerusalem Pride which we attended a few weeks ago and felt like a political march, Tel Aviv pride was a pure celebration along the beach with loud music, people singing and dancing, glitter everywhere and flags on every lamppost in sight. We spent Saturday relaxing on the beach and attempting to even o