12 September 2025

Our Technion UK Israel Tour - 6. The Media and Wine Tasting

All good things have to end eventually and this morning saw us meeting for the last time as a group.

Our guest today was a Middle East journalist who is trying to report the truth in a sea of hostility and shockingly poor journalism on the part of the world's media. 

He feels justifiably disheartened and disappointed (and I'm stating this extremely mildly) by seeing the profession he loves descend into the biased, subjective and poor state that it has placed itself since 7 October.

He told us that anyone who tries to present a viewpoint that is not favourable to the Palestinians is silenced and ignored by their editors and colleagues. It made for a pretty depressing session.

We then completed our written feedback forms and provided our opinions on the week. Highlights and areas to be improved upon (of which there were vurtually none). This has been a fantastic trip and the organisers have set the bar extremely high for any other charity that chooses to run something similar.

It was then up to the top floor, in a lounge looking onto the pool that we had the pleasure of tasting a range of wines from across this country and hearing the extraordinary story of how Rivka and Sam Baum, an English couple with a little child have set up a winery in the Golan.

A wonderful end to a wonderful tour. 

Stephnie and I took a Gett cab to the train station in Arlosoroff and boarded a train to our current location, Moshav Maor, near Pardes Chana, where we are spending Shabbat with her lovely cousins.

Shabbat Shalom to you all! 

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