Emery Class of 2025 Embarks on Impactful Trip to Israel
by Stuart J. Dow, Head of School
It sounds like a bad joke from “South Park”: A political group whose official slogan, complete with decorative banner, is “G-d is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam!” But this isn’t satirical TV, it’s the actual rallying cry of the Houthis in Yemen.
Because they’re backed by Iran, these militant jihadists have ballistic missiles and explosive drones, which they’ve been firing regularly at international cargo ships in the Red Sea and into Israel for the past 18 months.
In one of their most recent attacks, the Houthis had moderate “success” – a missile crashed near Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The reaction was a slew of flight cancellations into and out of Israel – thus jeopardizing the long-planned, much-anticipated trip to Israel for The Emery/Weiner School’s 12th-grade students. As such, we started exploring options.