A group of eight Israelis and Arabs are planning a joint expedition to Antarctica. The group set sail from the Tel Aviv marina Saturday for a trial run. Their trip, slated for January, will taken them from Patagonia in southern Chile to Antarctica, where they plan to scale an as-yet-unnamed mountain, Britain’s Independent reported. Among others, participants include a pair of Israeli veterans of the Israeli military’s Delta force, an Arab journalist from Jerusalem and an Arab veteran of Israeli prisons who was sent to jail for attacking Israeli soldiers with firebombs in the late 1980s. The trip, called “Breaking the Ice,” has the blessings of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres and the Dalai Lama.
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