Memories Of Israel

Young adults have different stories but a similar bond to the Jewish state.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN
Scene Editor

Jodi Berger
hiked from the
Mediterranean
to the Kineret,
in fields o
Israeli wildflow-
ers. This was
taken in Hai
in April 1996

Digging, up
archaeological
ruins: Nancy
Singer, Sandy
Rockind and Jon
Berlin.

For Jennifer Mattler and Rachel Morse, Israel
was a place of family bonding.

plane
attler steps off the
Jennifer
M
rund.
g
time
Every
t
at Ben-Gurion
Airport, she kisses the
"I do that because I feel that I have come

Michelle Cohen: "It really had an impact on
me to visit Mt. Herzl [cemetery], and to
walk past each and every tombstone, and to
see the ages of the soldiers. It was devastat-
ing. I think it really hit home at that point,
just the devotion that these people have for
their country. We, as Americans, can go
there and spend time there and give our
money, and that's all very important, but for
me to go to Mt. Herzl and see the grave-
stones of the fallen soldiers and the ages that
triey were when they lost their lives — at the
time I was 27 years old, and I'm reading
about people who were my age who died [at]
18 years old."

the bus: Donna Traub, Bryce Sandler and

Tan, and on
Marc Berke.

home."

Jon Berlin: The Golan Heights
— the political part of it, when
you see the geography
of the coun-
try and see why they're arguing
about a few miles of land and
you can see how strategic those few
miles of la n
d are to Israel and
how they can afford to give it up.
People who are here, reading the
paper, who haven't been there and
don't realize that the few inches
of
land are ye?), important to the
country. It was an eye-opene r
to
see how important it was to keep
the little bit of land that they had
control over there.

Detroiters in Israe l .

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us 13 on the UJA singles mission 1997.

Emily Jampel and Lisa Barson smile in
front of the Kotel.