We met in the parking lot next to Liberty Bell Park at 8:15 a.m., we boarded a mini-bus with 10 others and headed to an area just a 30 minute drive outside of Jerusalem in the West Bank.  Our goal was to help Palestinian farmers harvest their olive trees with Rabbis for Human Rights.  Rabbi Arik Ascherman explained to us in details the issues facing the Palestinian farmers in the West Bank that we were there to help with harvesting their crop.

1. Allowing our smiles to speak for us as we struggled to understand each others butchered Hebrew.

2. Meeting an entire family of Palestinian Olive farmers.

3. Hearing Amir sing an Arabic song as we gathered olives that had fallen on the ground.

4. Having our pictures taken for ‘Facebook’ about 23489302 times too many by Palestinian teenagers.

5. Learning that olives are not good to be eaten straight from the tree.