After saying a final goodbye to our Israeli
partners and the Upper Galilee, we loaded all of our luggage onto the bus and
headed down to Sde Boker for the North American Kennes. After briefly meeting
the other North American Dillers at the Mega Evening in Tel Aviv, we were all
extremely excited to reconnect with them and make some new friends.
The evening
started with an opening ceremony where David Ben-Gurion himself gave an
introduction to the Kennes and got us all pumped for a jam-packed one and a
half days of programming, socializing, and exploring North American Jewry (or
maybe it was a junior counselor dressed up as David Ben-Gurion, it was hard to
tell). We then broke out into our different color groups where we did some ice
breakers to reintroduce ourselves to the other North American Fellows that we met at the Mega Evening. Next on the
schedule was a really interesting lecture from Liat Cohen about the history of
the Jewish people and how the Jewish communities all around the world came to
be. We closed our first day of Kennes with an emotional Maagal Lilah where we
reflected upon our fifteen months since starting Diller. The first day of
Kennes was filled with interesting discussions and new friends, and I can't
wait for what tomorrow has to offer.
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