Our day began not too early in the morning (thank goodness) and after breakfast, we left Jerusalem for Tel Aviv. Upon arrival we made our way to Kikar Rabin -formerly Kikar Malchei Yisrael- to see the place where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in November of 1995. We had a debate and then lunch in the square, and travelled to The Yitzhak Rabin Center Israeli Museum on the outskirts of Tel Aviv with an amazing view of the city. The museum followed the history of Israel from the Mandate of Palestine to near present day through the life of Rabin, covering his youth on a Kibbutz to his army service to his final position as head of the Israeli Government. After the conclusion of our tour at the museum, we traveled once again to downtown Tel Aviv for some free time on the bustling Rothschild Street where we could buy snacks and souvenirs. Our final stop was at the birthplace of Israel itself: Independence Hall. Our tour included a short film and a presentation by an eccentric guide whose talk with us was both comedic and informative. Naturally, we were all starving by the end of the day and were eager to get back to the hotel in Jerusalem for dinner. But as things happen, our trip back was not short as we would have liked. As the Israelis would say, there was quite the balagan- mess- on the highways back to Ramat Rachel. We ended the night as we always do, with an -albeit truncated- ma'agal lilah and then a long awaited rendezvous with our beds.
David and Dillers.
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