Hello, not to sound entitled, but has anyone heard of a birthright trip redo? I am obviously looking into my other options, volunteering and Onward, etc, but if I could somehow redo the trip I would, even if there's a fee. Let's just say it was during the height of the war, the trip got moved by a month, and so a lot of people cancelled going on the trip, and the ratio was pretty terrible, around 15-20 guys and 5 girls. Also, because it was so hot (August) a lot of activities got cancelled, and also due to last minute the trip dates being moved in the first place, a lot of the activities got changed and what I was looking forward to the most - sleeping over at a Kibbutz, didn't happen. A lot of the days were spent being back early at the hotel and chilling at the pool with other groups. I also got sick the last 4 days pretty bad. Anyways, it wasn't super memorable for me, my time in Israel afterwards with the few connections I made / ppl I already knew was better spent in my opinion. Of course, I'm glad I got to go on this free trip and am grateful, and did make a few friends out of it, but a lot of people on the trip were pretty immature and even participated in bullying behavior towards people from other groups and towards each other. I feel the staff of the trip didn't care much about the behavior being exerted and encouraged one particular individual that they knew, who was not even staff, but one of us, to act rude/spoiled and be some group leader. He made fun of lgbt people, and tried to hit on a lot of girls etc. If you know anyone I could speak to about that whole situation, but especially redoing the trip, please reach out or comment -I'd appreciate it.

My neighbor is modern orthodox but has never been to Israel. Are there any free or subsidized trips he can take that would show him Israel for the first time, with a group of similar aged people? Thanks!