I'm actually British. However, I've been studying in Israel for over a year now.
Shanah Bet or just chilling there? I have a number of friends in their first year there.
While we're talking about Judaism, there's actually an extremely unusual Jewish tradition coming up in a couple of months, which happens only once every 28 years. It's a blessing on the sun recited on a 28 year cycle, and is when the sun reaches the equinox at the same time and day of the week as by creation. This is calculated using the rounded value of 365.25 days as the length of the year.
Yeah there is a facebook invite going around. It is quite an interesting event.