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Monthly Archives: July 2019

How to Travel Around Israel
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How to Travel Around Israel

July 26, 2019 Rachel van Koningsveld Leave a comment

Traveling around Israel can be a little tricky. Luckily, many of the street signs are in three languages (Hebrew, Arabic, and English) so you can easily find your way around.

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Your Story: Jason Marx
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Your Story: Jason Marx

July 26, 2019 Rachel van Koningsveld Leave a comment

I grew up on the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. After finishing school I was hungry for adventure, I wanted to learn more about Judaism as well as live on my own. I packed a bag at 19 and went on a gap year program in Israel, fully expecting to come back to Cape Town to start uni at the end of my gap year.

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Shuk Machane Yehuda
Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv
Bahai Gardens in Haifa
Spotted on bus to Maale Gilboa
Eli, Shomron, Israel
Israeli street art
Our engagement photos
Meeting my brother at the airport
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Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv
Our first apartment
Outside Rachel’s Tomb
Bahai Gardens in Haifa
Our wedding photos
At the coast in Netanya
Our wedding photos
Our future wedding location in Eli
Our wedding photos
Photo in Kfar Etzion
Proud Zionist
Flight package from Nefesh B’Nefesh
Our wedding photos
Masada
Luggage I took on my Israel trips
My parent’s first time to the Kotel in 17 years
Our wedding photos
Israeli breakfast spread
Finally found the colorful umbrellas!
Our wedding photos
My Teudat Oleh (Olah)
Free at last (from bidud)
Finished bidud, on our way to Jerusalem!
Our engagement photos
Cafe Greg
Just before our first shabbat together in a year
Schwarma in laffa
Saying goodbye before my aliyah flight
Our wedding photos
Taken from the City of David
Our wedding photos
Israeli salad
Outside Old CIty walls
Some prayers I took with me from people in Dallas, Texas
Delicious Israeli breakfast
Classic photo op in Jerusalem
Falafel and chummus plate
Our engagement photos
Israeli street art
First time touching The Wall in 16 years
Aliyah luggage haul
Shuk inside the Armenian Quarter of the Old City
My brother ran into us after we left bidud
My brother and I at the Kotel
My brother’s skin is as ombre as his shirt

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For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed to eternity.

 

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If you will it, it is no dream.

 

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

 

When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.

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