Farewell Dinner

Not a lot to blog about today. We had a morning of lectures at Yad Vashem on Australian Responses to the Holocaust and The Phenomena of New anti-Semitism. I thought I might just post a few new photos.

Here are two new photos of the intrepid Snake Path climbers at Masada.

This one is of the group on top of the mountain known as 'The Star of Jordan' where we visited the 12th Century Crusader Castle Belvoir.

The following photos are the ones that my friend took with her high power camera. You can see right into Syria and the decimation of the villages and buildings.

After school today the Yad Vashem staff took us out for a fully paid for dinner including Israeli wine and it turned out to also be  a Graduation Ceremony. Following are photos of the yummy dinner. Eating is a very communal affair here and everyone just tucks in to the same central serving plate.

Grilled capsicum and zucchini with olive oil.

Tortilla with egg, tomato and rocket.

Freshly baked Turkish bread with eggplant and tahini dip and salmon portions with sesame.

Lots of different salad choices.

Red wine.

Lamb and sweet potato mash and paprika potatoes.

Grilled chicken, curried sausages and rissoles.

 Little chocolate puddings with an assortment of vanilla ice-cream and gelato.

My little chocolate pudding.

After dinner we had a couple of spokespeople from our group present our hosts/lecturers with cards, flowers and wine and then they presented us with our Graduation Packs. I graduated!!!

This photo was taken outside of our classroom at the beginning of the seminar and it was also in our Graduation  Pack.

We still have two more days of the seminar to go and tomorrow we have one of the survivors from Oscar Schindler's list coming to give us her testimony and then we are heading to the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion to visit Schindler's grave.