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Yesterday we went on a trip to the North. We had to wake up very early so that we could get the most out of waiting for the bus which was, as is tradition here, 15 minutes late (it's getting better once we had one that was a full hour late!). Then when the bus arrived we could finally go. Our first destination was Tel Dan, which is located exactly on the Israeli side of the boarder with Lebanon and the old 1948 boarder with Syria. The road ahead was long and provided for another good bit of sleep. On the way up north you can see the landscape changing. Everything get rougher and the mountains get higher. It's quite beautiful to see. After a long long long bus-ride we finally reached Tel Dan.

Tel Dan is a man made hill (made by people building on top of the last tribe's ruins and junk, much like a Terp) which in the old day's had the city of Dan on top of it. The city of Dan was the most Northern boarder of Israel in Biblical times. "From Be'er Sheva to Dan." And until the 6 days war was also pretty much the top North of Israel. Most interesting about the place Dan is it's Biblical History. After The Kingdom Israel was split up in two Kingdoms. The King of the North understood that every year there were three festivals on which the Jews had to go to Jerusalem to the temple. So he build his own temple in Dan in which he put a golden calf as an idol.

Now after this we went to the old Syrian bunkers and heard the story of the heroism of the 6 days war. All very touching and interesting.

After that we went to the Jeshiva Hesder in Keriat Shemona to talk about the last Lebanon war. It was a heart recking story of utmost bravery on the side of the Jeshiva boys. A story of walking from bomb shelter to bomb shelter to bring supplies or just a friendly word. Moreover after the war the Jeshiva started to plant trees on the mountain were the forest was burnt down by the Katuscha's. For me it was good to see how this town rebuild itself as I was there one day after the war to bring supplies. Back then the town was in ruin... now it is almost back to normal.

Lat part of the day was going for a party boat tour on the Yam Kineret, the Sea of Galilee. It was... fun. Not really my thing but fun.