Day Four - Sunday, October 28, 2012

We began the day with a working breakfast at the hotel that included an interactive dialogue on The Memory of the Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Society with Holocaust scholar, Dr. Rachel Korazim. Following the discussion we boarded the bus and headed to Yad Vashem, the guardian of the collective Jewish memory of the Shoah. Yad Vashem is dedicated to commemorating the six million Jews murdered by the Germans and their collaborators, as well as the numerous Jewish communities destroyed during the Shoah, so that they will have an eternal remembrance.

Segway Tour of Jerusalem, Hass Promenade

After Yad Vashem, we had lunch at the Mansfeld Restaurant in the newly renovated Israel Museum, one of the most creative and innovative museums in the world with a wide and eclectic collection. Other delegation members opted to visit the interactive Begin Museum, devoted to the life and achievements of one of Israel's former Prime Ministers, Menachem Begin. A third afternoon option was to take a segway tour of Jerusalem commencing at the Hass Promenade.

Our dinner centered on the topic of, Making a Difference in Israeli Society, joined by a number of young Israeli innovators including; Lisa Barkan/Jerusalem Village; Bamby Sheleg/Eretz Acheret; Daniel Weill/Machshava Tova; Shira Winkler/Jerusalem Movement; and Yoel Zilberman/Hashomer Hachadash.