Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Cell phones
I just got my cell phone number that I'll have when I arrive in Israel:
0525668336
This number can be reached from the USA/Canada by dialing 011-972-525668336
I'll have it for the duration of my stay. However, be aware that it isn't functional in Egypt, don't think I'm dead - it's just that it's an Israeli phone company.. so they only service.. get ready for it... Israel.
The time difference is 7 hours, so if it is midnight on the East Coast, it's 7am same day in Jerusalem and Cairo.
0525668336
This number can be reached from the USA/Canada by dialing 011-972-525668336
I'll have it for the duration of my stay. However, be aware that it isn't functional in Egypt, don't think I'm dead - it's just that it's an Israeli phone company.. so they only service.. get ready for it... Israel.
The time difference is 7 hours, so if it is midnight on the East Coast, it's 7am same day in Jerusalem and Cairo.
My itinerary
This is the email that I sent out that chronicles where I will be this summer:
Departure:
From: JFK
Departure Flight: LY032
Departure from USA: 6/5/2006 5:05:00 PM
Landing in Israel: 6/6/2006 10:25:00 AM
Here is my itinerary on birthright:
Bus #532
CSUN Hillel Jewish Student Center, Syracuse University, Hofstra University, Brooklyn College and Rutgers University
June 5 – 15, 2006
Depart: Monday, June 5
Tuesday, June 6 - Getting Started
10:25 a.m. Arrive in Israel
Drive to Caesarea
Shehecheyanu ceremony on beach celebrating group's arrival to Israel
Visit the new audio-visual exhibit at the Caesarea port
Continue tour of Caesarea National Park
Afternoon Lunch at Caesarea port
Visit the Carmel winery in Zichron Ya'akov
Evening Drive to Kibbutz Kfar Giladi; check in to guest house
Dinner at guest house
Group program and icebreakers
Overnight Kibbutz Kfar Giladi- Phone: 04-6900000, Fax: 04-6900069
Wednesday June 7 - The Golan Heights; Mifgash Day #1
Morning Breakfast
Begin mifgash with Israeli soldiers
Bike ride in the Hula Nature preserve
Go kayaking & rafting on Jordan River
Drive to Golan Heights
Afternoon Lunch on own
Drive to Mt Ben Tal overlooking site of decisive tank battle during '73 War
Stop at Naot Sandal Factory
Return to guest house
Evening Barbecue dinner
Overnight Kibbutz Kfar Giladi- Phone: 04-6900000, Fax: 04-6900069
Thursday June 8: The Galilee; Mifgash Day #2
Morning Breakfast
Drive to Mt Meron for short nature hike
Drive to the Druze community of Beit Jahn
Afternoon Program and lunch in Beit Jahn
Drive to Safed for walking tour of synagogues, galleries and winding streets
Drive to Tel Aviv; check in to hotel
Evening Dinner on own in Tel Aviv
Overnight Metropolitan Hotel-Phone: 03-5192727, Fax:03-5172626
Friday June 9: Tel Aviv; Mifgash Day #3
Morning Breakfast
Walk to beach; conversation: How I relate to Israel – How Israel relates to me
Visit Independence Hall, where Prime Minister David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948
Afternoon Stroll in artists fair in Nachalat Binyamin
Lunch on own in Nachalat Binyamin
Drive to Rabin Square; pay respects at site where Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic on November 4, 1995
Prepare for Shabbat
Evening Kabbalat Shabbat
Shabbat dinner at hotel
Overnight Metropolitan Hotel-Phone:03-5192727, Fax:03-5172626
Saturday June 10 – Shabbat in Tel Aviv; Mifgash Day #4
Morning Breakfast
Optional "shul" hopping (visits to various minyanim in Tel Aviv)
Afternoon Lunch at hotel
Walking tour of Old Jaffa and Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv's first neighborhood
Conversation: Special and Normal
Evening Havdalah
Dinner at hotel
A view of life in Israel through cinema (at hotel)
Overnight Metropolitan Hotel-Phone:03-5192727, Fax:03-5172626
Sunday June 11 – "Dig for a Day" & Volunteering; Mifgash Day #5
Morning Breakfast; check out of hotel
Drive to Beit Guvrin for "Dig for a Day;" participate in archaeological dig and crawl through man-made underground caverns dating back over 2,000 years
Afternoon Boxed lunch
Volunteer/tikkun olam project
End of mifgash
Arrive at Roded; camel rides in area
Evening Spirituality Conversation: Wrestling with God
Bedouin hafla
Overnight Roded Bedouin tent –Phone:08-9950097, Fax: 08-9957326
Monday June 12 - Masada – Stephanie Fadlon’s (Hofstra!) Birthday!
Pre dawn Ascend Masada on foot via Roman ramp
Tour Masada
Breakfast at Masada Youth Hostel
Swim in Dead Sea
Afternoon Lunch on own
Hike in Ein Gedi
Drive to Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha
Check in to guest house; rest and freshen up
Drive to Jerusalem
Arrive at Haas Promenade for Shehecheyanu ceremony celebrating group's arrival to Jerusalem
Evening Dinner on own on Emek Refaim Street
Return to Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha
Overnight Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha Guest House-02-5331331Fax:02-331330
Tuesday June 13 – Jerusalem
Morning Breakfast
Depart by bus for Old City
Tour the City of David, where the city of Jerusalem first began
Begin tour of the Jewish Quarter including the Kotel (Western Wall), the Southern Wall Excavations and the Davidson Visitor’s Center
Afternoon Festive lunch in Jewish Quarter
Continue tour of Jewish Quarter
Conversation summing up trip
Drive to Latrun
Participate in birthright "mega event"
Evening Dinner at "mega event"
Overnight Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha Guest House-02-5331331Fax:02-331330
Wednesday June 14 - Memory & Continuity
Morning Breakfast
Visit Yad Vashem Memorial and Museum
Conversation: My Relationship with Jewish Memory
Afternoon Lunch at Yad Vashem
Continue to national military cemetery on Mt Herzl
Meet with Avraham Infeld, President of International Hillel
Visit Mini-Israel
Conversation summing up trip
Evening Festive final dinner at restaurant
Birthright is done the night of June 14th.
If you have any grave concerns or emergencies, the contact for Rutgers is the Executive Director of our Hillel Andrew Getraer, and he can be reached at during the day at 732-545-2407 and at night at 732-247-9979.
From June 14th-17th I will be at
Momo's Hostel
Tel Aviv
Ben Yehuda 28.
+972-03-5287471
I have internet access.
Jake is flying in the afternoon of the 16th. We went to middle school and half of high school together in Rochester. He's spending the month of July at Hebrew University with me but we decided he could fly in early and come visit Egypt with me.
We will be taking a bus from Tel Aviv the morning of the 18th (~9am) bound for Cairo, which will take about 10 hours.
The nights of the 18, 19, and 20 we will be in Cairo at
Desert Safary Hotel
2 Shampillion St.
Downtown Cairo
+20101541871
I have wireless internet access in my room.
The night of the 21st we will be travelling overnight on the Egypt national railway to Luxor. We will be leaving around midnight and arriving around 9AM. We will check into our hotel for the nights of the 22 and 23 at
Sherief Hotel
Badr Street
Luxor
+20127369633
No internet access here it seems.
The morning of the 24th we will take a two hour train ride to Aswan where we will stay for just one night at
Keylany Hotel
25 Keylany Street
Aswan
+20972317332
I have internet access here.
The night of the 25th we will be on the train back up to Cairo from Aswan on Egyptian national railways again. We will be staying at the Desert Safary (where we stayed our first time in Cairo) the 26, 27, and 28.
We will be returning to Jerusalem to register the 29th.
As for at Hebrew University I can be contacted via mail:
Bethany Murphy
c/o Ulpan or Summer Courses, as applicable
Rothberg International School
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Boyar Building, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, Israel 91905.
From July 2-31 I will be enrolled in the Jerusalem Ulpan. From August 8-31 I will be enrolled in Programme Scopus. So the line I have bolded depends on what program I'm participating in at the time. The intermediate week I'm planning on going to Jordan, to Petra at the very least, and other travel plans are up in the air during that gap week.
I don't know if I'll have internet access in my dorm room, I won't know until I get there, however there are computer labs. I'll have a cell phone there, but I don't know the number for about a week. If you want that number (and you're still reading at the end of this ridiculous email), let me know.
I won't have my return flight information until (shockingly) I am in Israel.
Departure:
From: JFK
Departure Flight: LY032
Departure from USA: 6/5/2006 5:05:00 PM
Landing in Israel: 6/6/2006 10:25:00 AM
Here is my itinerary on birthright:
Bus #532
CSUN Hillel Jewish Student Center, Syracuse University, Hofstra University, Brooklyn College and Rutgers University
June 5 – 15, 2006
Depart: Monday, June 5
Tuesday, June 6 - Getting Started
10:25 a.m. Arrive in Israel
Drive to Caesarea
Shehecheyanu ceremony on beach celebrating group's arrival to Israel
Visit the new audio-visual exhibit at the Caesarea port
Continue tour of Caesarea National Park
Afternoon Lunch at Caesarea port
Visit the Carmel winery in Zichron Ya'akov
Evening Drive to Kibbutz Kfar Giladi; check in to guest house
Dinner at guest house
Group program and icebreakers
Overnight Kibbutz Kfar Giladi- Phone: 04-6900000, Fax: 04-6900069
Wednesday June 7 - The Golan Heights; Mifgash Day #1
Morning Breakfast
Begin mifgash with Israeli soldiers
Bike ride in the Hula Nature preserve
Go kayaking & rafting on Jordan River
Drive to Golan Heights
Afternoon Lunch on own
Drive to Mt Ben Tal overlooking site of decisive tank battle during '73 War
Stop at Naot Sandal Factory
Return to guest house
Evening Barbecue dinner
Overnight Kibbutz Kfar Giladi- Phone: 04-6900000, Fax: 04-6900069
Thursday June 8: The Galilee; Mifgash Day #2
Morning Breakfast
Drive to Mt Meron for short nature hike
Drive to the Druze community of Beit Jahn
Afternoon Program and lunch in Beit Jahn
Drive to Safed for walking tour of synagogues, galleries and winding streets
Drive to Tel Aviv; check in to hotel
Evening Dinner on own in Tel Aviv
Overnight Metropolitan Hotel-Phone: 03-5192727, Fax:03-5172626
Friday June 9: Tel Aviv; Mifgash Day #3
Morning Breakfast
Walk to beach; conversation: How I relate to Israel – How Israel relates to me
Visit Independence Hall, where Prime Minister David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948
Afternoon Stroll in artists fair in Nachalat Binyamin
Lunch on own in Nachalat Binyamin
Drive to Rabin Square; pay respects at site where Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic on November 4, 1995
Prepare for Shabbat
Evening Kabbalat Shabbat
Shabbat dinner at hotel
Overnight Metropolitan Hotel-Phone:03-5192727, Fax:03-5172626
Saturday June 10 – Shabbat in Tel Aviv; Mifgash Day #4
Morning Breakfast
Optional "shul" hopping (visits to various minyanim in Tel Aviv)
Afternoon Lunch at hotel
Walking tour of Old Jaffa and Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv's first neighborhood
Conversation: Special and Normal
Evening Havdalah
Dinner at hotel
A view of life in Israel through cinema (at hotel)
Overnight Metropolitan Hotel-Phone:03-5192727, Fax:03-5172626
Sunday June 11 – "Dig for a Day" & Volunteering; Mifgash Day #5
Morning Breakfast; check out of hotel
Drive to Beit Guvrin for "Dig for a Day;" participate in archaeological dig and crawl through man-made underground caverns dating back over 2,000 years
Afternoon Boxed lunch
Volunteer/tikkun olam project
End of mifgash
Arrive at Roded; camel rides in area
Evening Spirituality Conversation: Wrestling with God
Bedouin hafla
Overnight Roded Bedouin tent –Phone:08-9950097, Fax: 08-9957326
Monday June 12 - Masada – Stephanie Fadlon’s (Hofstra!) Birthday!
Pre dawn Ascend Masada on foot via Roman ramp
Tour Masada
Breakfast at Masada Youth Hostel
Swim in Dead Sea
Afternoon Lunch on own
Hike in Ein Gedi
Drive to Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha
Check in to guest house; rest and freshen up
Drive to Jerusalem
Arrive at Haas Promenade for Shehecheyanu ceremony celebrating group's arrival to Jerusalem
Evening Dinner on own on Emek Refaim Street
Return to Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha
Overnight Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha Guest House-02-5331331Fax:02-331330
Tuesday June 13 – Jerusalem
Morning Breakfast
Depart by bus for Old City
Tour the City of David, where the city of Jerusalem first began
Begin tour of the Jewish Quarter including the Kotel (Western Wall), the Southern Wall Excavations and the Davidson Visitor’s Center
Afternoon Festive lunch in Jewish Quarter
Continue tour of Jewish Quarter
Conversation summing up trip
Drive to Latrun
Participate in birthright "mega event"
Evening Dinner at "mega event"
Overnight Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha Guest House-02-5331331Fax:02-331330
Wednesday June 14 - Memory & Continuity
Morning Breakfast
Visit Yad Vashem Memorial and Museum
Conversation: My Relationship with Jewish Memory
Afternoon Lunch at Yad Vashem
Continue to national military cemetery on Mt Herzl
Meet with Avraham Infeld, President of International Hillel
Visit Mini-Israel
Conversation summing up trip
Evening Festive final dinner at restaurant
Birthright is done the night of June 14th.
If you have any grave concerns or emergencies, the contact for Rutgers is the Executive Director of our Hillel Andrew Getraer, and he can be reached at during the day at 732-545-2407 and at night at 732-247-9979.
From June 14th-17th I will be at
Momo's Hostel
Tel Aviv
Ben Yehuda 28.
+972-03-5287471
I have internet access.
Jake is flying in the afternoon of the 16th. We went to middle school and half of high school together in Rochester. He's spending the month of July at Hebrew University with me but we decided he could fly in early and come visit Egypt with me.
We will be taking a bus from Tel Aviv the morning of the 18th (~9am) bound for Cairo, which will take about 10 hours.
The nights of the 18, 19, and 20 we will be in Cairo at
Desert Safary Hotel
2 Shampillion St.
Downtown Cairo
+20101541871
I have wireless internet access in my room.
The night of the 21st we will be travelling overnight on the Egypt national railway to Luxor. We will be leaving around midnight and arriving around 9AM. We will check into our hotel for the nights of the 22 and 23 at
Sherief Hotel
Badr Street
Luxor
+20127369633
No internet access here it seems.
The morning of the 24th we will take a two hour train ride to Aswan where we will stay for just one night at
Keylany Hotel
25 Keylany Street
Aswan
+20972317332
I have internet access here.
The night of the 25th we will be on the train back up to Cairo from Aswan on Egyptian national railways again. We will be staying at the Desert Safary (where we stayed our first time in Cairo) the 26, 27, and 28.
We will be returning to Jerusalem to register the 29th.
As for at Hebrew University I can be contacted via mail:
Bethany Murphy
c/o Ulpan or Summer Courses, as applicable
Rothberg International School
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Boyar Building, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, Israel 91905.
From July 2-31 I will be enrolled in the Jerusalem Ulpan. From August 8-31 I will be enrolled in Programme Scopus. So the line I have bolded depends on what program I'm participating in at the time. The intermediate week I'm planning on going to Jordan, to Petra at the very least, and other travel plans are up in the air during that gap week.
I don't know if I'll have internet access in my dorm room, I won't know until I get there, however there are computer labs. I'll have a cell phone there, but I don't know the number for about a week. If you want that number (and you're still reading at the end of this ridiculous email), let me know.
I won't have my return flight information until (shockingly) I am in Israel.
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