Diaspora Jewish Programs - Delegations and Overseas
A Journey of Connection, Roots, and Identity – Diaspora Jewry Programs
Get to know the country through your feet, experience history and connect with your roots.
For Jews coming to Israel from communities around the world, visiting the country is much more than a trip. It is an opportunity to get to know the place they have heard about at home and in family stories, to meet the landscapes, the people, and the heritage, and to create a personal connection with the Land of Israel.
The best way to get to know the country is to really go there. Don't settle for observing from a distance or touring between sites, but get down to the ground, walk the desert trails, stand in front of the cliffs, surf the streams and feel the country through a direct experience.
We combine challenging activities, guidance, and value-based content, creating a special encounter between experience, history, Judaism, and identity for groups from abroad. The challenging activities are part of the journey, but the big story is the connection created between the participants and the country.
The connection to the Land of Israel and history
Get to know the country up close: The Land of Israel is much more than beautiful landscapes and tourist sites. Almost every region hides a story: stories from the Bible, Jewish history, battles, settlement, and life in the land throughout the generations.
History meets the terrain: Instead of being satisfied with theoretical explanations, we connect the environment, landscape, and activity to the historical story of the place (in the Judean Desert, in the Galilee, or in Jerusalem).
The Land of Israel through a challenging experience: cliff surfing, off-road trails, climbing, and challenging activities allow participants to get to know the country from a different angle and create a connection while standing in front of a vast desert landscape.
Encounter with the country and its people: The encounter with Israeli guides, local groups, and Israeli reality gives participants a firsthand acquaintance with life in the country.
Jewish identity, roots and heritage
For young Jewish people and families living outside of Israel, the connection to the land and Jewish identity is built in different ways. We see fieldwork as an opportunity to create a connection that does not remain solely at the academic level:
The connection to roots and heritage: The encounter with the places where stories from Jewish history took place gives new meaning to concepts such as heritage, tradition, and belonging.
One people, a shared story: The group experience emphasizes values of mutual responsibility, helping others, cooperation, and mutual guarantee.
An experience that connects generations: the ability to connect stories passed down in the family from generation to generation with the personal encounter with the land, and the discovery of the places that grandparents and parents told about.
Experience, empowerment and long-term impact (for delegations and groups from abroad)
Facing a challenge and discovering new abilities: The moment when a participant overcomes the challenge, completes the task and discovers that he is capable of more than he thought.
Memories that remain long after returning home: An experience in which the participant himself was part of the event remains with him more deeply as a vivid image.
When the journey ends, the connection continues: a close acquaintance with Israel, a renewed connection to heritage, and sometimes even a strengthening of the desire to build a future here, to immigrate to Israel and make the connection to the land an inseparable part of life.