Ben Gurion University

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Hey everyone

Im here at ben gurion university in the Negev, the Israeli desert. It is the most northern and biggest city in the Negev. I started studying hebrew and other israeli classes (history, politics, and holocaust studies).

Every weekend i travel to the center, Tel aviv and Rishon lezyyon. Its easy to travel here because it is such a small state. You can get from my city, beer sheva to tel aviv in two hours on a bus for 15 dollars. You can also take the train for about 20 dollars.

Last weekend i went to jordan, a very important historical place for israel. Why? What is historical about Jordan? More recently Jordan is one of the only border countries to be at peace with israel. Egypt is at peace at the moment but due to certain issues with the breaking of the gaza border and palestinians piling into the Sinia area, it is not possible for Israeli's or Israeli travelers to travel there.

The terrorist act im sure you heard about in Dimona in January was caused by one of the palestinians who crossed through the broken Sinia border. I was sitting in Ulpan (intensive hebrew class) when I was startled by the sounds of sirens racing down the street. We didn't know what was going on but all at the same time our program leader text messeged us in class. He told us that a terrorist had exploded himself in Dimona's city center and another terrorist had been gunned down before he had the chance to

Here are two video links to the news coverage of dimona. I am giving you two because:
* Item 1 The first one is in english and...



* Item 2 The israel coverage is much better! even though you cant understand it you can see everything! The man lying on the ground who the medics are about to help is the 2nd bomber. But then they realize he is still alive and is trying to explode himself. Then a police officer shoots him in the head a couple times and kills him.

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Photos

the university
this is the front of the university. you can't get on campus without a student it card for security reasons.

strike
last semester was the largest strike in Israel's history. All the senior professors from all over the counrty were on strike and we attended the last rally before they came to a conclusion