"My fervent wish on their departure is that all our intrepid IST adventurers...appreciate the enormity of the contribution that the fragile yet fierce Holocaust survivors...made in giving us back the land of Israel"

"I am eager to see just how deep people can be, to interact with them and to introduce them to others." - David Cohen

"To every person there is a story, to every name there is a face, to every child there is a parent and to every journey there is a beginning. This was ours." - Liora Tuch