The last couple of days have been a blur! From Jerusalem, we headed to Akko, where we toured the Old City, ate a Hummus Said (famous Hummus Place), and then spent the afternoon working with Jewish and Arab kids at the Sir Charles Clore Youth Center. The Center is right near the neighborhood where Jewish-Arab riots started this last October during Yom Kippur. We arranged a special project where the children, ages 5 1/2-10 1/2 were split into pairs, with one Jewish and one Arab, and asked to draw a picture about the "future they want to see in Akko." Take a look at what happened, it's amazing. At night, everyone on the trip had a blast staying with families in Deir el Asad, an Arab village in the Central Galilee. Today, we spent the majority of the day visiting the Golan Heights, and getting a first-hand perspective of the conflict from the northern Israeli border, and then we came to Carmiel to work with Makom BaGalil (Israeli non-profit)'s Jewish-Arab youth circus! Now, we are spending the night in Shorashim with a couple of incredible families here.
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