Birthright’s First Trip Back to Israel: Here’s What I Saw

They say that love comes in many forms – looking at your beloved, a mother looking at her newborn, a father watching his child taking his first steps, reuniting with your best friend after months apart, the first snowfall in winter, the first flowers in spring…the list goes on. But there is one kind of love, a deeply specific and simultaneously universal love that I recently met, that has set a new paradigm for the heights to which love can reach – the love of rediscovering the land of Israel through 17 pairs of curious eyes arriving for the first time in the Holy Land.