By Jacob Rivkin - August 20, 2022
An unconventional summer camp project this month in Israel has welcomed campers who have been shaken by the effects of war, bringing together youth from Ukraine and southern Israel and elsewhere to bond and cope with trauma on Israel’s coast.
“Camp Hallelujah,” an international summer camp founded by the youth movement Habonim Dror, drew participants to its beachfront campground outside of Haifa for its third annual leadership summit this year. Nearly 600 campers from across Israel and abroad joined, among them Ukraine refugees and children from towns on the Gaza border, all bonding in spite of language barriers and enjoying the Israeli summer.
The camp’s efforts are part of the larger “Project Hallelujah,” which has brought children from Europe, South America and other areas to the international camp in Israel in recent years, among other cross-cultural projects throughout the country.
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