Bnei Akiva Shnat participants at Sydney Airport on Tuesday night. WHILE Jews around the world proclaimed “next year in Jerusalem” at Passover seders last week, despite COVID-19 travel restrictions it was a case of “next week in Jerusalem” for 18 young Australian Jews. Relief and excitement summed up the mood at Sydney and Melbourne airports on Tuesday evening as the teenagers became the first in 2021 to be able to finally depart for their postponed Israel gap year programs. Although non-citizens of Israel have been barred from entering the Jewish State for several months, participants on all Masa Israel Journey-affiliated programs of four to 12 months’ duration recently got the green light from the Israeli government to receive special entry permits from April 5.