(Ynet News) Aryel Heller - The kids at Camp Koby are not your average elementary and middle schoolers. They are more mature, more family oriented, and they don't fight over mundane things, enabling them to form strong and meaningful bonds with each other. After all they've been through, the little things just don't matter. Many of the American counselors expected Camp Koby to have a melancholy atmosphere, but found exactly the opposite. The camp rages with spirit and a love of life that people in the outside world seemed to have forgotten. Camp Koby is a project of the Koby Mandell Foundation, started by Rabbi Seth and Sherri Mandell, whose son Koby was murdered by terrorists in 2001 near Tekoa.
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