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A Rugged Alternative to the Israeli Vacation-as-Usual
11.11.2009

by Eric Lidji, Associate Editor, The Jewish Chronicle

The four women sat in Eat’n Park on Murray Avenue in late summer 2008, an ABBA melody playing in their ears, and composed the chorus: “We can dance, we can drive/ We’ll have the time of our lives/ Sixty girls, we’re havarim/ We are the Desert Queens!”

By that fall, they found themselves in southern Israel, among a caravan of silver pick up trucks navigating the rocky desert, singing their new version of “Dancing Queen” along with Jewish women from around the world, the lyrics projected onto the side of a boulder.

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