By: Rabbi Loren Sykes, Director of Israel Immersives When August approaches in Israel, the temperatures rise and what was a mostly green landscape turns varying shades of brown. We are entering the hottest part of the summer when it is often over 90 degrees during the...

By: Ben Markbreiter, MBI Today concluded a multi-day seminar on MBI called Machaneh Etgar. This is a very meaningful seminar on MBI as it helped in preparing our chanichimot to come back to their machanot as leaders. The main goal of Machaneh Etgar is to give...

By: Molly Cohen, Bus 10 This trip has truly been one of a kind. I am extremely grateful that I was able to travel around and to Israel with my camp friends and people I've known my entire life. Even though the desert brought its challenges at the end of the day it was...

By Ben Markbreiter, Habonim Dror, MBI Shabbat Shalom MBI Families, I want to take this blog post to tell you all about a very special event that happens every MBI: Yom Habo. As many of you might know, Habonim Dror is not just based in North America. There are Habonim...

By: Brandon Popper, Bus 11 My name is Brandon Popper and I’m going to be reflecting on my experiences in Israel! The first week was very eventful for me. We were first met by our counselors in Tel Aviv and then descended south for our desert adventures. The desert was...