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Sights<br />
Hiking Club<br />
At 5:00 am we rise, gulp down a cup of Turkish coffee and a handful of cookies, and we are off:<br />
the beginning of the day’s hike. It is almost futile to describe in words all the wonderful events<br />
that happen on a hike—burning toilet paper, bonfires at night, cooking dinner in the open, even<br />
mackerel spread. These are the special pleasures of the members of the Hiking Club. To us Israel<br />
is more than cosmopolitan cities and political debates; the wadis, deserts, and nachals show us<br />
what Israel is better than any bar or any speech. The Hiking Club has afforded us the opportunity<br />
to see what is truly the Land of Israel—beyond the disputes over borders to the shetach itself,<br />
from the mountains of Eilat to the hills of the Galilee. There is no better way to appreciate the<br />
true beauty of this country: there you stand, the sun setting over the desert, at the end of a 20<br />
kilometer hike; your feet hurt but you have a great feeling of accomplishment inside—can life be<br />
better than that? „ ,. .<br />
Mark Rubinstein<br />
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