Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 3:08am Electronic Mail
From: IN:MaayanBmidbar@ardom.ardom.co.il
To: Ian
Re: RE: Kallah 2000
Ian and Aileen Shalom,
Where has the time gone? It was great to hear from you. Of course, I immediately checked out the Internet site, and was amazed at how wonderful it is and how much work you obviously put into it. Kol HaKavod!! It does truly reflect a labor of love.
Life here at Yahel has been quite hectic - after a short break we're once again hosting Israeli high school students. Last week's group was 220 +, this week's group is smaller, "only" 150! After this week we finish the season and after dusting ourselves off, will begin preparations for Pesach
which we will hopefully be at full occupancy.
Drew and the boys are well. Elan goes off this week to his yearly school field trip, three days and two nights to the Jerusalem area. To say he's excited is an understatement. Nadav is involved in a new project - a youth parliament. He's one of 120 11th graders who will be involved in a "mock
Knesseth" program in May, through the auspices of the Prime Ministers Office. They had their first of three meetings and seminars on Thursday. He came home all enthused, and wants to put forth a resolution, together with another student he met there, for a Constitution for the State of Israel. (I had always thought we didn't' have one on purpose, because of the religious staus quo, but evidently according to Nadav our founding fathers had intended for all the basic laws of the country to be bound together in a constitution and then never did it). Should be interesting. In any case, "Seeds of Peace" activities continue as well and Nadav hopes to be with a Israeli Seeds of Peace Delegation traveling to Egypt at Pesach break for a week (we'll know this week if he was chosen). Just so he'll be able to leave Egypt in time for Erev Pesach!
Just wanted to touch bases - I have a load of work sitting waiting for me so I will have to keep this short. I do promise to read the site word by word and send you my comments, as well as a "Yahel Update" for you to publish.
Once again - Kol HaKavod!
Looking forward to keeping in touch, Lori