LONG READS Issue 931 · October 6, 2022

Home on the Range

The teens are part ofinitiatives that aim to let the outdoors work its magic where the classroom has failed

Home on the Range
Photos: Shlomi Trichter

Happiness is a basic requirement for children to succeed

Like a Rosh Hashanah machzor come to life, the sheep wait at the gate on the edge of the Judean Desert, jostling to be first in line to file by the shepherd.

Dodge, a black an d white border collie, nips at their heels as they move down into a gulley bordering the farm next to Mitzpeh Yericho, half an hour from Jerusalem.

To soft commands of “sha’on” and “neged” — Hebrew for clockwise and counter — the dog darts right and left of the flock, steering it into the hills.

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