A Life-Changing Journey: Roots Mission 2013

In March 2013, 15 teenagers from Pardes Channa-Karkur, Israel, went on a 10-day trip to Ethiopia, on a mission called “Roots,” to gain a better understanding of the sacrifices and difficulties their parents and grandparents had to endure to give them a more prosperous life as Israelis.

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Even for Mantesnot, one of the trip’s advisors, returning to his native land (after leaving 30 years earlier) was transformative. While touring an outlying village, he said several small children ran toward him and the rest of the group—an image he remembered himself juxtaposed in.