Spark is a Boston Jewish community-wide journey featuring events, learning and Israel trips in celebration of Israel’s 75th Independence Day. Space is limited!
Here are 75 potential ways you can celebrate Israel’s 75th while traveling with CJP to Israel from April 18-27, 2023 (for adults ages 21 and up), and/or from Dec. 21-31, 2023 (for families with children ages 7 and up) on Spark!
- Eat fresh hummus
- Surf in the Mediterranean
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Wander through the Old City
- Place a note in the Western Wall (one million notes are left in the Kotel each year!)
- Go to the hottest nightclub in Tel Aviv
- Taste Israeli wine
- Eat shawarma
- Haggle at a shuk (market)
- Hike in the desert
- Milk a goat
- Explore the “Start-up Nation”
- Celebrate Shabbat in Jerusalem
- Meet Jews from everywhere in the world
- Try halva
- Sip on an “ice-café”
- Visit the ANU: Museum of the Jewish People (Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world!)
- See the largest number of Bauhaus buildings in the world
- Taste a limonana (lemonade with mint)
- Listen to Israeli music
- Hang out on the beach
- Visit a kibbutz
- Watch the annual Yom Ha’Atzmaut flyover
- Eat falafel
- Visit the Israel Museum
- Take a graffiti tour
- Eat in a Druze village
- Visit bakeries in Jaffa
- Celebrate Christmas Eve in Jaffa
- Celebrate Christmas Day in Nazareth
- Play Jewish geography
- Eat knafeh
- Explore Israeli art
- Drink Turkish coffee
- Visit the Baha’i Gardens
- Taste arak
- Visit the Jaffa flea market
- Explore the Western Wall tunnels
- Stroll along the Tel Aviv Promenade
- Plant a tree (Israel is the only county to have more trees today than it did 50 years ago!)
- Take a jeep tour in the Golan
- Relax in hot springs in the Sachne/Gan Hashlosha
- Go to a winery
- Ride in a cable car
- Explore nature in the Golan
- Party like an Israeli
- Go to one of the hottest nightclubs in Tel Aviv
- Remember history with a visit to Yad Vashem
- Fly nonstop on El Al or Delta
- Create long-lasting friendships with Haifaim in Boston’s sister city, Haifa
- Watch the fireworks over the Mediterranean Sea to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut
- Explore Latrun
- Hike Masada
- Eat sabich
- Drink whiskey made at the Dead Sea
- Visit the Peres Center
- Train at an IDF facility
- Shop on Ben Yehuda Street
- Drive an ATV through the Jerusalem hills
- Meet an Israeli artist
- Taste the latest Israeli ice cream flavors (like hummus!)
- Explore caves
- Make chocolate truffles
- Meet with the Druze people
- Party in a Bedouin tent
- Learn at the Shalom Hartman Institute
- Sing and dance with Israeli musicians
- Ride a camel
- Join a drum circle
- Learn how Israeli inventions have changed the world
- See wild boars in Haifa
- Take a food tour through a market in Tel Aviv
- Make 50 new friends from Israel
- Make hundreds of new friends from Boston
- Make memories that will last a lifetime!