Israel Seminar - Day 4 - Discovering the Old and New in Tel Aviv

front: Michael Moses, Susan Moses - second from left

left :Yael Bodian from Melbourne, right:Hilary Damaser from Columbus, OH

Jaffa

Singing Hatikva together (accompanied by the original recording of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra's first official performance of Hatikva) on the very site where the State of Israel was declared was an emotional experience for all the participants of the winter Israel Seminar.

For Michael Moses from Sydney, the fourth day of the Israel Seminar brought back especially vivid memories of when he was a little boy. The images of his parents' joy and excitement when the State of Israel was declared, returned to him when the group visited Heichal Ha'atzmaut - the place where Israel's independence was declared - in Tel Aviv. For him and his wife, Susan, first time visitors to Israel, this Mini-School trip is "spectacular". Back home in Sydney, they have fallen in love with Melton and this love is growing stronger and stronger as each day of the Seminar passes.

In addition to Heichal Ha'atzmaut, on this day of the winter seminar, the group visited the old port of Jaffa, the first neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, Beit Bialik, and experienced the bustling modern city that Tel Aviv is today. The day ended with the lighting of the Hannukah candles on the Tel Aviv beachfront overlooking the Mediterranean sea and a visit to Kikar Rabin.

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