The Berman Family Mission - a group of 28 high school students and several adults from Maryland - has completed its nine-day stay in Israel. The group's mission had a three-fold purpose: to strengthen the participants' connection to the Land of Israel from a historic perspective based on the Bible and Mishna; to show solidarity with Israelis; and to emphasize their ties with Israel and the site of the Holy Temple as their potential home. They also visited victims of terror in hospitals.