Reasons to Go on
Israel Pilgrimage

Top 50 Reasons to Go On Pilgrimage
(In no particular order)

• When you go on Pilgrimage your leaving home for the summer but your also going home!
• Experience Israel USY style
• It's a Mitzvah (commandment) to go to Israel
• It is the country created for YOU
• Falafel (enough said)
• You'll Get to meet new people from across the US and Canada (with whom you have at least two things in common: Love of USY and Israel)
• You'll be making lifelong friendships
• You haven't done Ruach until you've done it in ISRAEL
• You'll Daven at the Kotel
• You're living Jewish history everywhere you go
• You're making Jewish history everywhere you go
• The luggage carts in the airport are really cool
• You'll hear Hebrew everywhere you go. Maybe you'll learn a little too!
• Kosher Fast Food (All the McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Subway and Burger Ranch you can't have here)
• You are surrounded by history everywhere you go!
• The Eilat Discoboat
• You know how in movies you see people crying because they've just seen something beautiful - You'll get to have one of those moments, GUARENTEED
• To experience the rush when you step off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport
• There's no place like home!
• You can preview Nativ by checking out Biet Nativ and Kibbutz Sa'ad
• Sunrise at Masada
• Float on the Dead Sea.
• Marzipan (Enough said)
• Ever seen the Dead Sea Scrolls? Fine... see 'em again!
• You can blow a lot of money at the NAOT SANDAL FACTORY!
• The country is absolutely beautiful. There are deserts, beaches, mountains, lakes, seas, rivers, and plains all in 1 place!
• Have a Mitzvah Day with Danny Siegel
• Do an Archeological Dig
• Ever been to a Druze village? Do you even know what a Druze is? Well... ain't nothing like some Druze Hospitality.
• You can see relatives who live there who you have not seen in a long time.
• There's no need for a winter jacket
• You can wish people Shabbat Shalom and not get weird stares
• You can swim the waterfalls at Ein Gedi
• Hey Guys! You'll never get away with wearing a shirt that tight unless your in Israel.
• Ever Drink Chocolate milk in a bag?
• You'll be engulfed in the sounds of Israel... not cars and buses... Israeli music!
• If there's a meaning to Judaism, you'll find it in Israel.
• You'll Ride a Donkey at Kfar Kedem
• If a donkey wasn't cool enough try a Camel
• You'll plant a tree with the JNF on USY's Hill 16
• American hummus just doesn't cut it
• You can say that you've been to Europe and Asia at the same time (its kind of on both continents)
• A brand new Culture that you may not have gotten here
• It's the summer of a lifetime!
• Schwarma (enough said)
• When else are you not gonna be embarrassed to cry on a plane?
• Because its SAFE
• Israel needs us now more than ever! We need support the economy and the moral of the people.
• You will learn what it truly means to be Jewish, because you are standing on the land where Judaism came from.
• BECAUSE WE CAN!!!!!!

"There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can."

- Ellie Wiesel