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...Harvard participants in the Netivot Fellowship, who were supposed to arrive in Israel on Sunday, were told of the cancellation Monday through an e-mail from Michael Simon, Harvard Hillel’s director of programming...
...Simon and Hillel Executive Director Bernard Steinberg said at the time that the trip’s itinerary would be changed to avoid the northern parts of the country, including the city of Haifa, where Hezbollah rocket attacks have been common...
...Simon said Tuesday that the program was postponed because a majority of students expressed doubts and uncertainty about the trip—not because officials felt the situation was too dangerous...
...Simon said that Hillel may consider opening up the trip in the winter to include more students than were scheduled to go this summer...
This year, because Netivot was scheduled to depart much later in the summer than in past years, there is no time to plan another trip for this summer. However, Simon said that a Netivot retreat in the United States will be planned for sometime this fall...