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s A Miracle

Detroit mission goers hit the ground running.

STORY BY SHARON LUCKERMAN
PHOTOS BY DEBBIE HILL

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
he 568 Detroiters on Federation's
Michigan Miracle Mission 4 knew their
trip was special — but didn't realize just
how special.
When they arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport outside
Tel Aviv at 6:30 a.m. Monday, April 19, after an 11-
hour direct flight from Detroit, they were greeted by
an Israeli television crew ready to interview them for
a show aired the next day.
Beyond that fanfare, Monday was a very special
day to be in Israel, said Hannah Kessler of
Jerusalem, one of 14 guides touring with the
Detroiters. It was Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Remembrance Day; and the group would soon see
how the whole country promises "never to forget"
by stopping and observing two minutes of silence.
But first, some had to get acclimated to a country
they knew but had never visited.
"It was overwhelming," said Rita Sitron of
Farmington Hills, one of 100 first-time travelers to
Israel among the mission-goers. "My children,
who've been to Israel, told me what to expect. But it
didn't mean anything until I saw it for myself. I felt

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2004

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an automatic closeness and part of the country."
Michigan Miracle Mission 4, co-sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, the
Detroit Jewish News and the Michigan Board of
Rabbis, is believed to be the largest group traveling
to Israel from the United States. With the four mis-
sions from Detroit since 1993, the grand total of
mission participants is 3,450, which is more than
any other U.S. city.
The two planeloads of Detroiters, spread among
14 buses, left the airport Monday for a full day's
agenda. Each bus included a guide and security offi-
cer.
Avoiding rush-hour traffic on the highway, the
buses headed down roads with palm trees and color-
ful magenta and orange bougainvillea plants.
Stretches of rich farmland were visible, including a
field of cauliflower growing within the airport fence.
Although each bus had a different itinerary, all
headed to Tel Aviv, first winding up and down the
narrow streets of Jaffa, an old Arab city on the
Mediterranean Sea that now has an Arab and Jewish
population.
At a few minutes before 10 a.m., those in Bus 13

hurried out of Tel Aviv's Underground Museum,
where they had just seen a film detailing how some
young Holocaust survivors found their way to Israel
and later fought in the Jewish underground to make
it into a state.
At 10 a.m., a siren began to ring and everyone
stopped to observe Yom HaShoah. Cabs halted in
the middle of the street and drivers stepped out.
People on the street froze wherever they were.
"Everyone was statue-still," said Barbara Morets
of Bloomfield Hills.
"It was especially chilling having just seen the film
on the Israeli underground," said Judy Kepes of
Bloomfield Township. "It was very moving."
In Tel Aviv, several buses also stopped at the
memorial site where former Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin was assassinated.
Israeli guide Kessler explained that people started
coming to the site to light memorial candles and
that the area between the two gray buildings grew

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- Photo above: Donn Resnick of Bloomfield Hills walks
along the wall of names listing those killed in the tank
division of the Israeli Army at its museum in Latrun.