YACHAD Blog

Yom Chanich was so much fun!! Yom Chanich is the counselor’s day off and the participants get to run the entire day!!! Some participants got special jobs such as being the director, head counselors, making sure everyone is drinking enough, specialty diets, specialty programs, and sunscreen. I got to be Racheili Samuels the girls head […]

Today was a meaningful and fun filled day. We started by heading to Chevron in our new bulletproof buses headed to Marat Hamachpaila to visit where our avot and imahot are buried. We then went to the Gush to have our first meat meal (shwarma) after the nine days. We then went to the Zomet […]

After a long an jam packed week filled with exciting activities and new experiences, we spent a meaningful Friday afternoon at the Yad Vashem museum. We were divided in to groups and were given a tour. Our guides helped us learn a lot about the holocaust, and the horrors the Jewish had to endure not […]

 Jerusalem – Old City Day  Esteemed Yad B’yad Parents, friends, families, pets, rabbis, principals, and administration: welcome to our blog post. At dinner tonight, some people were discussing at the table the highs and lows of the day. It was decided – unanimously – that the only low was sweating enough to fill a water bottle. […]

Heyo! Zevi T here! Today we left our hotel in Ner Etzion and headed south. Our first stop of the day was at Mount Carmel where we took a cable car over a sick view of the ocean. After that we went to Caesarea. First we toured the Coliseum built by King Herod as well […]

We started off today with another beautiful davening and delicious breakfast. Then we got on the busses and headed off to a great day of cliff side activities. Everyone had the chance to go zip lining, repelling, and go to the shooting range. At the shooting range we had the chance to learn to use […]

What’s up everyone, It’s Megan, Tali and Zack here with a daily report on what YBY trip 1 is up to.  When I first entered YBY I didn’t know what to expect! Since it began I feel like my whole life has changed and I literally feel like a different person. I have a ton of […]

Hey everybody! It is Estee and Hannah here reporting on day 8 of Yad B’Yad. We started the day with our departure from our extended stay at the Chispin hotel. After that we took a bus ride to an Ethiopian absorption center in Tzfat. When we got there we first went to a classroom full […]

Hey hey! Ayala and Aliza here with the one and only Tomer to recap our uplifting first weekend in Israel. We started Friday off by visiting Rashbi’s (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai) Kever in Meiron and didn’t even mind the boiling hot weather! With Momma Tani constantly reminding us to wear our hats and apply sunscreen […]

Hey guys! Gila and Ahuva here. Today was such a fun filled day! Our morning erupted with excitement when we began our day with an early visit to Har Ben Tal, an extinct volcano that was used as an IDF/Tzahal lookout during the six day war. Our tour guide Gila presented us with a demonstration […]