{"id":11818,"date":"2026-04-22T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:46:13","slug":"a-life-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/a-life-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>by Isaac S. (Age 11 | Tribe of Benjamin)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Isaac.&nbsp; This year in my cabin I had a really cool kid names Michael.&nbsp; Michael lived in Israel for eleven years, and then he moved to Georgia.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was his first year at Camp Gilgal.&nbsp; His dad was our Hebrew teacher and was really fun.<\/p>\n<p>Michael and his family lived in Israel at a hostel called Beth El.&nbsp; Michael said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a really big hostel where people come and stay for a few days (usually three) while we teach them about Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael enjoyed living at Beth El a lot.&nbsp; He said that, &#8220;Living in Israel was fun and we had more friends from around the world than if we lived in America.&#8221;&nbsp; He also said that his school was, &#8220;more challenging than in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like Michael a lot, and talking to him made me want to go to Israel more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Isaac S. (Age 11 | Tribe of Benjamin) My name is Isaac.&nbsp; This year in my cabin I had a really cool kid names Michael.&nbsp; Michael lived in Israel for eleven years, and then he moved to Georgia.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was his first year at Camp Gilgal.&nbsp; His dad was our Hebrew teacher and was really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6057,6059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgal-gazette-2003","category-junior-camp-east-gilgal-gazette-2003","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11947,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions\/11947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}