Expanded Itinerary and MBI Departure Day Information

Dear MBI Families,

It was great having all the conference calls this week with many of you. I certainly heard a lot of good questions and feel an excitement as we have a few short weeks until the program starts. We have updated the MBI acceptance page to the right of this post to include the Expanded Itinerary and the MBI Departure day information page. As a reminder at the beginning of next week we will be sending out all the domestic e-tickets for everyone flying to New York or Toronto. The international flight is an e-ticket which we will have all the flight information so you won't need to worry about keeping track of those numbers. Soon we will be sending out contact lists for every machaneh(camp) so you all can see who is going and perhaps start a local communication chain whether by phone or email.

Shabbat Shalom,
Michael

MBI Conference Calls!

In the run up to MBI I would like to invite you all to take part in conference calls that myself and Leon(Rosh MBI) will be taking part. It will be a chance for you all to ask any and all questions you might have about the program and hear other concerns other parents may have. Every machaneh(camp) has a designated time slot. However, if you cannot call in to your camp's time slot, feel free to call in to any other conference call. The assigned times are as follows:

Monday June 23rd at 1pm ET Gesher
Tuesday June 24th at 1pm ET/12 CT Tavor
Thursday June 26th at 1pm ET Moshava and Na'aleh
Thursday June 26th at 3pm ET/12 PT Gilboa and Miriam
Friday June 27th at 1pm ET Galil

To call in to the conference calls dial 605-475-6100 and the code is 194815. While the conference call is free, you may be billed for the minutes since it is a long-distance call.

I look forward to speaking with you all as we have less than a month to go!

Michael

MBI Itinerary

At long last the MBI Itinerary is available. This is the basic itinerary. We will be sending out a more detailed itinerary that explains more about the specifics of everything listed. To follow this document you will note that the days are split into mornings, afternoons, and evenings and below that is the name of the place they will be staying. The name may be that of a campsite, hostel, or Kibbutz they will be staying.

Click here or copy and paste the below link.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhpg3npt_11fqr3p2dg

Lastly many people still need to sign up for a cellphone. All participants must have a cellphone for the duration of the program and we recommend signing up with Israelphones at: www.israelphones.com/mbi.htm or for more information go the MBI Acceptance page at the link at right.

Hope you all had a great Chag and you'll be hearing more from me soon...