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...Harvard participants in the Netivot Fellowship, who were supposed to arrive in Israel on July 30, were informed of the decision yesterday 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 today that the program was not postponed because officials felt the situation was too dangerous, but because a majority of students expressed doubts and uncertainty about the trip...
...From the planning perspective, none of the circumstances on the ground changed significantly in either direction during the past week,” Simon said, explaining that the conditions neither improved enough to reassure the students, nor deteriorated so as to make the trip unsafe. “We still feel and we are confident that we could have had a safe and secure and educationally rich program...
...Simon said that the decision to postpone the trip came after discussions with all the students and the staff members from Harvard and Yale involved in Netivot, as well as communications with Israel’s Nesiya Institute. After these talks, Netivot officials concluded that the number of students “willing and able” to come on the trip without uncertainty was too small to continue with the plans...