On January 12 2010, around 5 PM, there was a strong earthquake in Haiti. It lasted only 1 minute but killed over 230,000 people and injured 250,000 people.

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While the Middle East is changing faster than ever and many regimes are falling, our government maintains its stability and strength. The current government – which was elected in a democratic, just and free process – is starting its fourth and last year of term. This month (April 2012), the current government is celebrating three years in office.

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Yair Lapid was born on November 5, 1963 in Tel Aviv. Lapid is an Israeli actor, author, TV presenter and news anchor.

In the beginning of 2010 there was an increase in media publications about the possibility of him entering politics, and he was criticized for a conflict of interests because of his media activity.

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Despite the relative surprise, Yair Lapid, a former journalist and TV announcer and Noam Shalit, Gilad Shalit’s father, decided to run for the elections to the next Knesset.

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The Night Spectacular

Reef L ORT Tivon On January - 22 - 2012

The Jewish holiday Hanukkah, which celebrates the survival of the second Temple in Jerusalem, is definitely my favorite. It’s filled with light (literally) and tasty foods, not to talk about 8 days of celebrations. So, when I leave home for 2 days during this holiday, I expect the reason to be a very good one – and man, the Eye2Israel seminar was a really great reason!

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Last Hanukkah there was an overnight Eye2Israel seminar. All the members, ages 14-18 came to learn about Israel, about public diplomacy, about debate and of course to have fun together. Our first tour was at Mount Herzl.

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During the Hanukkah holiday, I participated in the Eye2Israel project overnight seminar, which took place on December 21-22, 2011. During the second day of the seminar, we all went to the Mini Israel tourism site.

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There Was a Purpose

Tamir S ORT Holon On January - 22 - 2012

For me, there was one main purpose for the Eye2Israel overnight seminar in Jerusalem – to meet new people, and I definitely got that done.

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I have to say that my Hanukkah vacation was wonderful just because of the amazing people of the Eye2Israel project who made our seminar great.

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An Awesome Seminar

Ofir M ORT Afek On January - 21 - 2012

On December 21-22 we, the members of the Eye2Israel project, went to Jerusalem for an awesome seminar. It’s hard to decide what the best part of it was, but for me it was the debate course.

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Israel is Gr8

Tamir F ORT Afek On January - 21 - 2012

When we heard about the Eye2Israel overnight seminar, we got excited, especially me. It was an option to meet and spend time with other teens who have the same goal as I have – representing Israel.

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