Mar 4, 2008 - On the border

**Note, we're having trouble posting photos tonight** Paul Benjamin here. Despite the title of this post, we did not go out of Tex-Mex for dinner today. However, we definitely got a taste of what it's like to live at the edges of Israel. We started our morning at one of our Partnership 2000 locations: Western Galilee Hospital. For those who don't know, the hospital is located in Nahariya, a town that was hard-hit by Hezbollah shelling during the war a few years ago. Though the hospital was originally built for times of peace, it has been...

Mar 3, 2008 - Up the coast

Lisa here. Today was a very long day of bus travel up the coast from Tel Aviv. Honestly, I am just exhausted tonight, so won't post much. We're now in Nahariya, and we all had dinner at various homes tonight. We haven't all seen each other to compare notes just yet. Don't forget to vote tomorrow! Morning started with a mad dash for breakfast--the whole hotel seemed to show up at 7:45 today. We got on the bus and headed to the Ayalon Institute in Rehovot. This was a very interesting historical site where an underground bullet factory hidden...