Henry and Sophie Olshin, Long Island, New York

After heading north from Tel Aviv our first stop was the Atlit Detention Camp, which has been preserved with the help of JNF. This is a very moving and realistic view of life in the detention camps by Jews who tried to escape from Europe and were imprisoned by the British from 1939-1948.

We then went to the artist village of Eih Hod which had many studios of important artists. We enjoyed a workshop of clay, ceramics, and painting. The next day we hiked the JNF forests near the northern border with a JNF-KKL forester and saw the terrible damage of this past summer's war. We were happy to see new plantings and that life is returning to the forest. In the afternoon we took a tour of the Akko, a crusader fortress. In the evening we heard Professor Baram, one of the world's leading scholars on Iraq and frequent guest on CNN, speak on the Iran-Iraq situation. Another active CAARI day!!!