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Plugged back in

By , JTNews Correspondent

Now that the largest mission to Israel in Seattle’s history, Israel Unplugged, with 96 participants, has returned, they’ve got stories to tell and new insights into parts of the Jewish State they might otherwise have never seen. Here are some of those stories through pictures.
Photos by Anna Frankfort of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

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Debbie Kleid of Seattle takes a Jeep ride through the Golan Heights

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Sal Cohen takes a turn reading from the Torah during the group’s Shabbat experience on top of Masada.

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From left to right, Larry Levi, Michael Feinberg, Margy Crosby, Dotty Fox and Lisa Reed get covered in Dead Sea mud. Robert Reed stayed clean.

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The group traveled to Kiryat Malachi, near Tel Aviv, which has a relationship with Seattle’s Jewish community. From left to right, Herb Orenstein, tour educator Sharon, Carol Sidell, Alan Sidell, Marla Orenstein and Irv Sonkin paint a mural on a town community center.

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The entire delegation.