This was certainly not the trip we had planned in the preceding months. That being said, we learned so much about life in Israel while our 10 day hiking trip covering the whole country has been spent entirely in Jerusulem, or more specifically, inside the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Keram just outside of Jerusalem. The morning after arriving,we had to take our 10 year old son Daniel to the emergency room where by night’s end he had undergone an emergency bowel resection for a ruptured Meckel’s diverticulum. We learned so much more about people in Israel from this experience than we probably would have learned had we been able to pursue our hiking tour.

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