Bass brought his husband, Michael Turchin, who is Jewish.“We’re excited to be here, this is Michael’s first time to Israel,” Bass said in a Facebook live video. “There’s gonna be a lot of ‘Hey a Christian and a Jew walk into a bar jokes,” said Bass, a Southern Baptist.The group have already been posting photos and videos on social media along the way.
Tuesday saw them visit Jaffa, stopping in the Maskit design showroom, chowing down on hummus and shwarma, visiting the Ilana Goor Museum and touring the Carmel shuk. On Wednesday morning they hit the beach in Tel Aviv – amid a searing heatwave, no less.Sigler, who took part in a Birthright trip in 2008, posted a photo of her arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport with the caption: “Our little adventure begins....”