Israel: Birthright from the North to Jerusalem

hey all!

since i’ve been back i have not been able to organize myself really well and i’ve been back for 3 weeks, so there’s that. but i really wanted to bring y’all a review of my trip to israel and my trip in london! so i broke up each trip by 5 days and wanted to share with you guys what happened in each of those 5 days!

so today, i am bringing you the FIRST half of my birthright trip in israel and talking a little about what we did. so lets get started!

day 1

this was our travel day and the day which i spent the whole day in JFK airport to getting in our plane and then taking a 12 hour flight, so i ~honestly~ have no good photos of what we did today, each person was absolutely dead. once we arrived in israel, we got off the plane made it through customs and border control and ate dinner at the airport. we took a bus two hours to the north and went over the rules for the trip, we then went to sleep so no pictures.

day 2

on the second day we started up in the north and viewed mt. bental and saw into syria. we hiked and saw a waterfall and enjoyed lots of outside. my phone did not work at this point and my camera went out of charge super early in the day. thats my explanation for not having lots of photos. sorry, but it was a mainly outdoor day!

day 3

we spent our day in tzfat. its an older town known for kabbalah, or jewish mysticism. it was a cool place that had an art market and we ate some pretty good yemeni food which is most similar to a savory crepe! we continued to explore the city and we also went to a kosher winery up near the border of lebanon.

day 4

we spent our day in the old city of jerusalem. we explored walking around, shopped explored and then went to go to the western wall. this was a main day of exploring and was super fun. the old city was a super cool place that had tons of religious energy. the wall was one of the most meaningful places i visited on my trip and i loved every second of it.

day 5

on this day we explored the rest of jerusalem. we went to yad veshem, the holocaust museum in jerusalem. it was an amazing experience and i highly suggest that everyone go to visit it, as it is so important to the jewish experience. later in the day we went to the shuk, the outdoor market in jerusalem. we ate at a really good authetic mizrahi restuarant with our israeli soldiers who went on the trip with us and we shopped around, as it is in my character, i loved the candy in market and bought a bunch for the rest of my trip, and of course it did not last long. we finished the evening as shabbat started which was the most magical experience. i turned off my phone as the sun set but i have one last photo with all the people at the wall at shabbat.

enjoy my pictures!

xoxo, kate.