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Taste of Partnership

Have you ever wondered what it is that we do in Partnership 2000 Yokneam-Megiddo? Well, it will take a thousand words to explain, so we've figured that tasting it, yes – tasting it, would be much more comprehensible.

Dan Yaakov (right) with Richie Gallant (right)

Friends Reunited

“I think that what’s really cool about Yokneam,” said Richie Gallant, “is that everybody here has heard of Saint Louis. I’m here with a friend from New York and wherever we go in Israel they say New York wow. When I say I’m from Saint Louis they look blank. But here in Yokneam–Megiddo everybody knows all about Saint Louis.”

Gallant was reunited in May with First Sergeant Dan Yakov, an IDF reserves tank commander, when he paid his first-ever visit to Yokneam... more

Atlanta Teenagers Feel at Home in Yokneam-Megiddo

Grace Lahasky recalls sitting in a room in Yokneam waiting nervously to meet a group of local Israeli teenagers.

“I don’t know why I got so nervous,” recalls Lahasky, 17, from Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia. “They came in after finishing some exams and they were just teenagers the same as us.”

Lahasky was one of 34 Atlanta teenagers on the Teen Community Trip to Israel in June. They spent three days in Yokneam-Megiddo, where Israeli families hosted them, and they used their homes as a base to tour northern Israel... more

Saturday 04 July, 2009

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