Working with Project Leket - Gleaning fruit

 Sixteen tons and what do you get - a little closer to feeding the needy.  CAARI picked close to 1 ton of oranges which helps provide fruits to 600 families!
After a full day of volunteer work, we headed back to the hotel for dinner and the speaker's forum.

Working in Forest and Gleaning Fields

The cliff that collapsed at Sataf

If you want to know how to build a wall - ask CAARI.  On Tuesday, we visited the ancient JNF /KKL Restored agricultural forest - Sataf.  CAARI's project was to trim olive trees and rebuild or repair one of the stone terraces that had been washed away.  After - we all enjoyed a picnic lunch overlooking the picturesque valley.
Fortified with food and energy CAARI is off to picking fruit for the underprivileged with Project Leket! see next post!

Getting to the terrace was a bit of a hike

CAARI women working hard at Sataf

Slinging buckets of rocks at Sataf

Connie at Sataf

Mary filling a bucket of rocks to fill in the terrace

Jeff the star rock slinger at Sataf

Filling buckets with rocks at Sataf

Elaine and Harriet fill buckets with rocks at Sataf

You can see CAARI's labor paid off.

Marilyn and Susan examine the rocks at Sataf

Mark directing the repair of the terrace

Rosalie and Arlene are Pruning Trees at Sataf



CAARI is on the way to lunch

Lunch at  Sataf

23 January - Rabin Center

Vic and Sharon test their head phones for the tour of the Rabin Museum

Maor our guide at the Rabin Museum hands out headsets for the Museum display on Yitzhak Rabin's life

Mary examine the map of the Negev at the Rabin Museum

A special exhibit for 40 year anniversary of Operation Yonatan, our guide explains the background of the hijacking of the Air France plane and the freeing of Israeli and Jewish hostages by the IDF on 4 July,1976

Barbara overlooks the sunset over Tel Aviv on the balcony of the Rabin Museum

Maor. our guide at the Rabin museum explains the last moments of Yitzhak Rabin's life.

Community Service -

Mary and Jeff teach pupils at HaGalil Elementary School

CAARI began their community service assignments last Tuesday which continue this week.   Some  were a little worried how it was all going to work out.  But, look how well they have adapted and the joy in the volunteering!

Mark at Baal Shem Tov Elementary School

Marcia and Elaine at The Tel aviv University Botanical Gardens

Connie resting at the Botanical Gardens

Marilyn at Amiel Rambam Elementary School