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...
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