Students of Vilnius Shalom Aleichemo School (ORT), travel through the Israel cities, not leaving their school premises

May 10, on the Independence Day of Israel, at the Vilnius Shalom Aleichemo School, the project "Trip to the cities of Israel" was presented. Students have been gathering information about various cities in Israel and made presentations.

Even in the January such cities as Haifa, Tel Aviv, Be'er Sheva, Ashdod, Eilat, Jerusalem were spread between senior classes.  On the all lessons of general and Jewish cycle students and teachers learned about their city. The aim was to broaden horizons and knowledge about Israel, to integrate knowledge about the state of Israel into the process of studying the general cycle, to promote students’ interest to study history, geography and traditions of the State of Israel.

May 10, at the Independence Day of Israel, the grand opening of the week "Trip to the cities of Israel" took place.
In the hall design work in which students showed the material collected in the city were put: what's new about the city they have learned on the Physics, Chemistry, Math and other lessons, how the city is connected with Lithuania and what sights are worth to be seeing for tourists. On the week of Israel, each class presents itself as a travel agency, the aims of which is to promote the city well, so that the tourists  should want to visit it first of all.
7^th grade students opened this week, for this year they celebrate the Bar-Bat Mitzvah, and so they have the honor to represent Jerusalem. Every day, our newly-made travel agencies touted tourists to their town, they were dressed as sailors and singing (8^th grade  represented Ashdod), they flew on an airplane (11^th  grade -Tel Aviv), they spoke 4 languages ​​- Russian, Hebrew, English and Lithuanian  and told the city's ancient history (Beer-Sheva – 6^th grade), and finally, 10^th grade was playing the lottery. May, 17, there was the closing ceremony of the project. In a warm atmosphere 10^th grade students played mock lottery for the right to visit Eilat.
Coincidentally, at the close of the project our school was visited by guests from the Embassy of the State of Israel who were touched by the warm atmosphere of Israel in the hall very much.
Honorable third place was delivered to the 7^th  grade in second place -  to 11^th grade and winner of the project were the 9^th grade students , for the most complete and accurate report on the work had been done.
7th grade was given a huge shakotis, winners, who won the 1^st and the 2^nd place got free movie tickets. Supervising teachers and those ones, who have worked hard to complete the project, were also handed with sweet prizes.