Name: What a bike ride can teach you
Uploaded: 2010-11-17T15:07:00Z
Duration: 15 min 29 s
Description: Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz.

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz.

Shimon Schocken: What a bike ride can teach you

What a bike ride can teach you

Mountain biking with juvenile inmates in Israel offers profound lessons in resilience, revealing the transformative power of nature.

Facing and overcoming the rugged terrains, these young riders learn the vital life skills of perseverance and self-respect.

This unique initiative not only rehabilitates but educates, instilling hope and tolerance through the lens of Israel's complex history.