Tribe L2L Jeru Day 2:

Day 2 of our experience! Written by Saul Lew and Emmanuel Sebbag.

 The first thing we did was archaeology at the Israeli excavation centre. This was a very practical start to the day. We sieved through newly collected dirt from near the western wall filled with artifacts from the history of Israel. We got a glimpse of the the life of an every day Jew living in Israel hundreds of years ago through the objects we found. 

Our next visit was to the city of David. It was enlightening to see what the city looked like before the modern state of Israel. When we heard the Muslim call to prayer it hit us just how tolerant Israel is to other religions.

When arriving at Har Hertzel, the memorial for the fallen soldiers of Israel, we realised how bravely the soldiers have fought to create and protect our home land. We each went to find a single grave to reflect upon and we realised how each name on a grave had a life, family and their own unique personality and also how some of them were barely older than us.

 Our last visit was a night time trip to an Israeli army base of the Duvdevan special forces unit. We got to see how brutal and grueling the training is just to be able to defend our country. After visiting Har Herzel earlier in the day it was nice to see now at the army base that the sense of conviction and passion for our Jewish future is more alive than ever.