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Last week four (4!) busloads of our students went south to the Negev for a training session in learning how to navigate in an open area, like the desert, during the day and at night, using just a compass and a map.
!30 first year students, including the Ma'ale Efraim branch in the Jordan Valley, went out to learn how to navigate during the day, under the supervision of twenty trainers from the post-army yeshiva program at Bnei David. For night maneuvers another 50 second year students joined in. The guys slept overnight in Shomreya, which was once a secular kibbutz in the Negev and is today a thriving community based on families who had been expelled from Gush Katif. The maneuvers were in the Goral hills, a classic area for teaching navigation and maneuver, and the food came straight from the Bnei David kitchen.
In short: it was a festive way to start the winter semester here at Bnei David, going from navigating a map to navigating a page of Talmud!

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