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Well, its finally come to the end. My 6 month internship program is officially over. I can’t believe it, I really can’t. As usual, 6 months has gone so fast. For the last week of our program, we had a 4 day trip to the north. It was full of emotions, especially me, only days after my cousin passed away, and just the overwhelming situation of the program ending, and friends leaving. But let me talk about the amazing trip we had before I get all mushy.

Go Golan! when did Israel start looking like Ireland?

Leah Schneier
2007-04-21 21:39:07

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Sunday in Israel is a normal business day). So, as I said, it was raining, and there was tons of fog, and since we were on the top of this mountain, the clouds were brushing past us. It was really cool. Back to the story... this is the place where the biblical battle between Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu) fought the Ba'al prophets. Apparently, they had a big competition to see who's god was real, with fire that would not go out. The Ba'al prophets had to cheat to light this fire, one guy even hiding under it to keep lighting it. Elijah, started the fire, and then to prove that his god, the Jewish g-d was all powerful, he dumped water to put the fire out, but it wouldn't go out, proving that his g-d was real. Needless to say, he won the competition, and then slaughtered all the false Ba'al prophets and soldiers. Onto our kibbutz, till tomorrow!

Day 2... We are now in the Golan heights. The Golan is on the western side of Israel, in the far north. This is the land contested by Syria. It is gorgeous green mountains and luscious fields and lots of farming. It was pouring raining again today. The first thing we saw was this waterfall, called the Banas Waterfall. This waterfall, only a few days before was almost dry from the lack of rain. Luckily for us (this is where the rain started to pay off), it had been pouring rain for over 24 hours now, and the waterfall was just gushing with water. It was amazing. Its funny because as much as we whined about the rain, we still enjoyed what we were doing.

We drove further up to the Hermon mountains, to Nimrod's fortress, which sits on a tall, narrow ridge at the foot of Mt Hermon, overlooking all the surrounding area, as a great lookout for rulers that used to live there. It is believed that the fortress was originally built by the Muslim rulers in the 13th century, then taken over the Mameluks, then Mongolians, then back to Muslim hands, however the area has not been fully excavated yet, so they are still ...