Last Thursday afternoon the Hillel Day School came all the way from Detroit to join us in Acco. Even though they had only arrived in Israel the previous day, they jumped right into their tikkun olam on the Agaman Beach.

As the day cooled off all 40 students began walking down the beach armed with their own trash bags and plenty of trash to fill each one. Everyone’s spirits were high as they saw that their help was truly needed to collect the trash other people had left behind.

Some brave students took on a shopping cart buried at the edge of the tide, to add to the pile of garbage for the municipality to pick up. A few fellow beachgoers even lent their help picking up the huge amount of rubbish just sitting in the sand. All in all over 70 bags of trash were collected!

All the students left the beach with stickers and ready to continue to see the rest of Israel. Have a great trip and thanks for all your hard work!

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Meanwhile, the beaches in Acco are still closed due to pollution.

Read more about the pollution problem and what Zalul’s doing about it here.

Yesterday, Zalul took members of the Knesset Socio-Environmental Caucus on a tour of some of the most pollution affected areas of northern Israel. It began bright and early with a bus ride from Tel Aviv up to Haifa, picking up officials and press members along the way, and meeting to start the tour at the Haifa Port.

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