Shabbat, B'nai Mitzvot, and A Night Downtown! 6/10

While some of us took the opportunity to sleep in this morning and catch up on our beauty sleep, some of us did wander out with the staff to explore local shul's in Tel Aviv for Shabbat Services this morning. There is something so beautiful about celebrating a Shabbat in Israel! We all gathered back together for a community lunch and then had free time. Some of us used free time to sleep, but for many of us, we used the time to play outside in the hot Israel sun and sit swim in the pool.

This afternoon, once we were all showered and clean, our bus celebrated the B'nai Mitzvot of 2 of the members of our bus. Brandon DeJulius and Stephanie Herold. The service was beautiful and we are so happy and proud of our bus-mates!

Our long afternoon continued with a walk through Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv's first neighborhood and then heading to an early dinner. Our Rekaz group (all of the buses in our hotel) gathered together to hold a Havdallah ceremony to mark the end of Shabbat. It was amazing to see everyone ending a day of rest together and commemorating the start of a new week as one large community.

To end our day and to celebrate Brandon and Stephanie's B'nai Mitzvot, we headed out to a popular club in Tel Aviv that was rented out especially for Taglit Birthright, it was a wonderful conclusion to the day.

We have an early day tomorrow as we will be packing up and heading to our 3rd location...The Negev and sleep in a Bedouin Tent tomorrow night!