This year a team, which included a New York firefighter, an Israeli excombat pilot and a Ukrainian soldier, embarked on a journey across the Sahara Desert. Each had lost friends or family as a result of international conflicts and all had strong opinions on war, peace and political ideologies. Beginning in Jerusalem and ending in Tripoli, the group endured what are considered to be some of the harshest conditions on earth, testing them as individuals and forcing them to cooperate in order to achieve their goal. During the journey all participants kept diaries which told stories about enlightenment and unity, as they shed their preconceptions and embraced their differences.
