Meet our amazing bus driver, Dakar. He lives in Holon, which is the 3rd largest city in Israel. This is the pace where we experienced Dialogue in the Dark. Dakar is the proud father of 4 children. Dakar used manage a warehouse for many years. He switched occupations and became a taxi driver. For the past 5 years he has been driving a bus. In Israel many of the bus drivers, like Dakar, own their own busses and work independently.
Dakar keeps a very clean bus. Each day we made sure to leave the bus in the standard that Dakar keeps. Dakar told us how happy he was to take around a group that is spending time learning about the history of Israel. He told us we were a nice group. Each day on the trip, we read a news announcement and said Tefilat Haderech. Dakar really enjoyed this part. He made a special request of Morah Kosofsky that on the last day, Chaim Cowen, read this travel prayer. Chaim was happy to oblige.