School Twinning Programs

Hanoar Hatzioni Shnat Hachara is our 10-month long program in Israel. Our youngest Madrichim come to study, volunteer, and simply live in the land of Israel.

The program is designed for certified architects. It offers a unique opportunity of studying together with Israeli students in "The Urban Design Master's Degree Program" M.A. at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. The courses are conducted in English.

The Preparatory Program is a one year program designed for newcomers and foreign students - high school graduates - who wish to pursue advanced studies in Israel. It is assigned to bridge the gap between overseas and Israeli highschool study curricula.

Derech Etz Chaim is focused on independence: independence in learning, independence in thinking and independence of the individual as part of the community. DEC offers a non-institutional environment, challenging you to think for yourself. You will be appreciated for who you are while you strive towards the realization of your unique potential. A close connection with your instructors coupled with a dynamic learning environment will help you lay the foundation upon which your future learning will firmly stand. Small classes, top-notch facilities and dynamic Rebbeim (instructors) are all key elements of the experience. Established in 1998, Derech Etz Chaim is widely regarded as one of the premier yeshiva programs catering to post-high school study in Israel. The Yeshiva is located in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, overlooking the scenic Jerusalem Forest.

Amishav presents a fantastic opportunity for Australian youth at the end of Year 10 to spend 3 months learning and living in Israel. This program is designed to encourage you to ask questions about where you want to go in life, and the type of Judaism you one day want to live. You will also develop leadership skills, enabling you to come back to Australia as a leader of the Jewish Community. Amishav is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to explore your own Jewish Identity, and experience life through a Bnei Akiva lens!

The program is based in Kibbutz Gaaton, a green and peaceful Kibbutz in the Galilee, Northern Israel. 32 dancers join each of the 5 months bi-annual"Masa Dance Journey"courses in September and February. Dance Journey students co-live with the KCDC dancers dance, including joint training.

Extend the core Israel Journey program with an elective and enrichment week. During the first part of the week, participants choose from either a “Sea-to-Sea Hike” or a “Culture & Innovation Tour". The second part of the week is dedicated to living in and supporting a local community through a series of service projects and cross-cultural exchanges.

Budokan Israel is a challenging, 5-month (1-month) adventure that combines world-class martial arts and fitness instruction with highly developed courses in Hebrew and Jewish/Israeli heroes, exciting field trips across the country, inspiring volunteer projects and amazing people. The program improves your fitness, teaches you to defend yourself, all while exploring Israel.

Career Israel program is a summer and 5-month professional internship program open to Jewish college/university graduates from all over the world. The program provides internship placements in leading companies and organizations in the private and public sectors in Israel in every field including law, medicine, media, economics, politics, public relations, education, social work, engineering, computer science, advertising, business and more. The program also includes accommodations, a Hebrew study program, tours and extracurricular enrichment activities. A professional internship in Israel is an impressive and prestigious addition to your resume and will enhance your future career development.

In the Volunteer & Study Summer Program you will be part of a diverse learning community and gain valuable experience by volunteering with an Israeli non-profit organization. You can choose to have a half-day volunteering in education, caring, or non-profit management, and the other half studying Hebrew Ulpan and/or Jewish texts.

Sharei Bina offers a unique learning experience for young women seeking a personal relationship with Judaism in a warm and accepting atmosphere. Our full schedule includes Chumash, Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Law, Women in Tanach and Hassidic Judaism. Students are encouraged to develop and express their talents through our workshops in dance, art, music, writing and pottery.

The Ariel University Center’s ATZil (Academics, Torah, and Zionism) computer science program is designed for students with an interest in, but with no or partial academic background in, computer sciences. Students enjoy hands-on workshops in these fields and individual assistance from faculty and teaching assistants. Selected courses from the department of computer science with an emphasis on Israel’s role in today’s global world of technology at Ariel University are taught in English, and Hebrew-speaking students can select courses from a wider range of programs offered at the university. Participants have the option to participate in the Ariel community. Program graduates may elect to continue to full-time programs and earn a degree at the University. Credits can be used toward degree programs in Israel and are generally transferable to universities abroad.

The Yuval program is a unique Torah-study program for bright young women who wish to integrate into a high level Beit Midrash. The program offers in-depth Torah study with immersion into Israeli culture and daily life. Studies consist of: Tanach, Gemara, Jewish Law, Jewish Philosophy, Hassidic Judaism, Zionism and Hebrew Literature.

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This one year program is designed for students who are interested in Israeli politics and society, providing them with a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the study of Israel, including the study of history, politics, anthropology, culture and religion. Graduates may pursue careers in foreign affairs, NGOs, journalism, and academia.

Gain career-based skills and a deeper understanding of the multifaceted dimensions of sustainability. Explore the complex relationship between connection to land as a core part of identity, spirituality, and social justice. Engage with a holistic approach to world issues that focuses cultivating the values that drive peace and social justice.

Ayelet Hashajar is a midrasha for Latin-American young women that are looking to explore the Jewish tradition in a nice and warm environment.

Lej Lejá es un programa que le da la posibilidad a todo joven Iberoamericano, entre 21 y 30 años, de tener una experiencia en Israel durante un periodo de entre 2 y 12 meses, de acuerdo a la medida y expectativas de cada uno. Lej Lejá está compuesto por un programa básico y módulos a elección. El básico es común a todos los participantes e incluye: vivienda, seguro médico, madrijim (equipo de trabajo), un mes de ulpán (estudio de hebreo), actividades culturales y paseos turísticos periódicos. Los módulos a elección son aquellas actividades que el participante realiza durante la mayor parte de su estadía. Estas pueden ser: pasantía laboral no remunerada, voluntariado, estudio de idiomas, cursos académicos, Business y emprendimientos en conjunto con el Centro StarTau de la Universidad de Tel Aviv, Memoria (estudios de Shoa) en conjunto con Yad Vashem y Massuah, Hasbara (esclarecimiento del conflicto árabe-israelí) y cualquier otra actividad que el participante desee y esté en nuestras posibilidades ofrecerle. La vivienda ofrecida por Lej Lejá puede ser en Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Raanana, Haifa o Beer Sheva. Asimismo, el participante puede decidir vivir por su cuenta en cualquier otro lugar del país. El programa comienza todos los meses, una vez al mes y cada participante puede elegir la fecha de comienzo que le sea más cómoda. El precio de Lej Lejá varía según la cantidad de meses que el participante permanezca en Israel, la ciudad donde se hospede y los módulos a elección que realice. Aquellos participantes judíos que apliquen a Lej Lejá por un período mínimo de 4 meses, tiene derecho a recibir una becas otorgada por MASA. Para información más detallada y aplicación online: www.lejleja.org Síguenos en Facebook: www.facebook.com/LejLeja Síguenos en Twitter: www.twitter.com/LejLeja Visítanos en Lej Lejá TV: www.youtube.com/LejLejaTV

Are you a Day School student who doesn't want a full-time Yeshiva program yet loves Israel? Try the Rav Steinsaltz approach to Jewish learning. A co-ed Jewish learning environment in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv which includes volunteering/internships, seeing the country, and interacting with students from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds.

From navigation and topography to hikes, lectures, and real-life training exercises, Marva will be sure to give you the ultimate Israeli army experience. For young Jewish adults who want to become familiar with Israel, Marva is a unique 8 week opportunity to experience the physical and emotional challenges of the country, its problems and people. Through hiking the land, living in field conditions, navigating deserts and hillsides, and participating in seminars and lectures, you will learn hands-on the issues of the country. Marva will help you strengthen your ties to Israel, whether you’re a tourist or potential new immigrant. It is a group experience like no other. Conducted in simple Hebrew, the program is the perfect way to sharpen your Hebrew skills. The program is based in the south of Israel on a Gadna base, but participants will spend considerable time in various other parts of the country, including Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Galilee and more. From navigation and topography to hikes, lectures, seminars and walking tours, participants partake in real-life training exercises and live in actual army field conditions. Military-style discipline is enforced in all activities, making this experience as authentic as it gets.

The Dorot Fellowship is designed to assemble and empower a network of young Jewish lay leaders to enliven the American Jewish landscape. Each year, 10 Dorot Fellows are chosen each year to live in Israel, where they sharpen the characteristics and skills, acquire the experience, and broaden the networks required for Jewish leadership in the 21st Century. The Fellowship enhances their ability to observe where change is needed, to assess and interpret the actions needed to bring about change, and then to act upon that knowledge by intervening and becoming active players in the social change process. The Dorot Fellowship encompasses both individual and communal learning experiences. Each Fellow devises a Personal Learning Program, comprised of formal and experiential learning and volunteer activities. In addition, Dorot Fellows and Educators exist in a Collaborative Learning Community in which all members take responsibility for developing and executing a communal learning agenda throughout the year. Through travel, study, and dialogue (among themselves and with others), the Dorot Learning Community seeks to assist Fellows with their personal learning goals, so as to develop a sophisticated understanding of Israeli society, and to address both the breadth and depth of issues critical to Jewish communal leadership. Upon their return from Israel, Fellows participate in the Dorot Fellowship Network, an ever-growing cadre of innovators, reformers, creative artists, organizers and activists who are working together to enliven the American Jewish landscape.

Israel Challenge is a Gap-Year program offering a diverse hands-on experience. Our basic curriculum is divided into 4 stages giving each participant the liberty to choose among various options.

Two hours on campus of the Weizmann Institute- Israel’s most prestigious institute of contemporary science will change the way the visitors perceive science and scientific research in Israel and in general. The program is designed to introduce the exciting world of science and scientific research, the role of science and technology in our every-day lives and culture and Israel's and Weizmann Institute's unique role in the international arena. The program includes three different parts: Weizmann Institute's Visitors Center, an interactive guided tour through the Clore Garden of Science - a unique outdoor science museum, and a cutting-edge scientific lecture by one of the Weizmann's current researchers.

When the founding Rosh Yeshiva, Moreinu VeRabbeinu HaRav Amital zt”l was asked what's special about Yeshivat Har Etzion, he would tell the following story. Many years ago, the Baal HaTanya was learning in his room. In the next room, his grandson, the Tzemach Tzedek, was learning and in the third room a baby slept. Suddenly, the baby woke and began to cry. The Tzemach Tzedek continued studying. The Baal HaTanya got up, walked past the Tzemach Tzedek into the room with the baby. He picked up the baby and comforted it. When the baby was quiet, the Baal HaTanya said to his grandson, "If you learn Torah and don’t hear a Jewish baby's cry, there is something wrong with your learning." In Yeshivat Har Etzion, our goal is to learn Torah AND hear the baby's cry. In every generation, a baby cries: some obvious, some hidden. Sometimes the child itself doesn’t realize its crying. It is our job, as a Yeshiva, to hear even the hidden cries of our generation.

The program allows the participants to live and work on the Kibbutz, learning Hebrew, buiding a community with the group, and experiencing communal life.

Ayelet Hashajar is a midrasha for Latin-American young women that are looking to explore the Jewish tradition. We offer a full program with trips and classes in Spanish.

The International Program is a one-year, interdisciplinary MA degree program which gives its students the academic and practical skills needed for conflict resolution in the international arena. Students from around the world and a variety of backgrounds benefit from learning with expert practitioners while living in Israel, the Silicon Valley of Conflict Resolution.

Explore the world while living in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Participants are based in these two great cities while they volunteer/intern, study (college credits can be earned) and see Israel. In addition, once a month participants go to a different country in the world: Norway, Spain, Ireland, China, Czech, Italy, Germany, and Holland.

The Semester and Year Long Programs offered by the Ginsburg-Ingerman Overseas Student Programs office are aimed at students who are currently registered in a BA/MA program and want to study abroad, students who have recently completed High school and are interested in doing a Gap Year abroad, students who have recently completed their BA studies and would like to take additional courses in order to prepare for application to a graduate program, and students who are interested in doing a research-based Internship, in combination with their academic studies. The courses offered include the following subjects: Emergency Medicine, Anthropology, Communications, History, Environmental Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Sustainable Development, Global Health, Art, Gender Studies, Israel Studies, Hebrew and Arabic Language Studies.

MBA programs focusing on the management of knowledge-based and technology-intensive firms. This program is distinguished from other MBA programs by innovation and entrepreneurship. Building upon the strengths of the Technion and of the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, the Technion MBA has become one of Israel's leading management education programs.

Kimama Michmoret is situated in the Mevo'ot Yam beach village of Michmoret. The is one of Israel's most unique and beautiful spots - an untouched seaside resort. Here, campers partake in a wide variety of activities in sports, the arts, music, media, and water sports. Our largest camp, Michmoret is awaiting your arrival!

A high school educational program for young Jewish girls in the spirit of Torah and good deeds (Mitzvot) through Hassidic Judaism. provides a special Ulpan course for non-Hebrew speaking students, as well as a process that helps them slowly integrate into the regular high school program.

The Shalheveth Freier Physics (Safe Cracking) Tournament is a year-long program in which teams build a safe locking device based on principles in physics. The tournament culminates in a two-day international safe-cracking competition held every spring at the Davidson Institute. During the tournament, every team has to break into their peers’ safes within a tightly allocated time interval and according to a carefully designed schedule! The tournament is judged by prominent Weizmann Institute physics professors and the Davidson academic staff. Every year approximately 100 teams enter the competition and 40 teams compete in the finals. Teams come from many different countries. We are looking for new contestants from all around the world!

Explore the richness of Israel through a family adventure. After traveling as a family through your region of choice, celebrate your Bar or Bat Mitzvah according to your family's tradition and observance in the foothills of The Golan Heights, atop Masada, or at the Western Wall. Hear, feel, and touch Jewish history as you weave modern and ancient legacies into your family's story.

Explore vibrant, progressive, sun-soaked Tel Aviv on Oranim's two week Tel Aviv Summer Cultural Experience. Live in luxury vacation apartments in the heart of the city, only a block from the sand and surf. Spend your days soaking up the sun on the beach or heading out on one of our daily cultural excursions. Spend your nights in Tel Aviv's most exclusive night clubs and bars, or on a guided tour of the city's best and most interesting restaurants.

Bar-Ilan offers a postbaccalaureate pre-med program to college graduates and highly-motivated career changers who never took pre-med courses, affording them the opportunity to complete preparation for medical school, dental school, veterinary school, or nursing school in just one year, in English, on our pastoral campus just twenty minutes from downtown Tel Aviv. Bar-Ilan is an American-accredited university, with a proven track record in English-language post-bac programs. The world-class faculty and staff have trained at Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Columbia, Brandeis, and New York University.

The program objective is to present the Israeli society, economy and culture to the student, providing a true perspective of the life in Israel in order to encourage Aliah. The program will provide career guidence, visits to main Universities and their faculties, lectures with employers, participation in job fairs, Ulpan and trips all over the country. If the student is already engaged in a course or is already employed, Shaarei Daat and its members will be his house and his family in Israel.

Kesher Hadash is a ground-breaking pre-service professional development experience in Israel for students at the Davidson School of Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Its philosophy rests on two central tenets: 1. Engagement: Engagement with Israel should include all of Israel’s rich and multifaceted diversity, including aspects that are frustrating, difficult, and challenging. Seeing Israel through its beguiling and intricate complexities will ultimately lead to a deeper and fuller relationship with it. 2. Encounters: Whenever possible, Israel engagement should include extended and deep encounters with Israeli peers. The development of relationships with Israeli peers leads to a richer understanding of Israeli society than can be formed in any formal class.

Shnat Hachshara is an educational program for young people from Jewish Zionist Youth Movemens from Latin America. The main purpose of this program is to develop in our participants leadership skills, facilitate a significant experience in Israel, and prepare them to "give back" these skills when they return to their communites.

The 1-year MA program in Maritime Civilizations in English offers students an exceptional opportunity to explore the history, archeology and fabric of maritime societies, as well as the natural environment in which they developed and currently exist.

Freshman Year in Russian allows to start studying towards a BA degree at the Technion in Russian. During the program students take university courses for credits taught in Russian and an intensive course of Hebrew. Besides studies all participants take part in social activities, tours around Israel and volunteering.

Machon Shoshanat Yerushalayim: An institution which gears itself towards the personal growth of Lubavitch girls, who are permeated with Yiddishe-Chassidish values. The learning program broadens the knowledge of the student and helps her to internalize Hassidic leadership and strengthen her connection to the Rebbe.

An exciting opportunity for you to study Judaism and Hebrew in a truly Zionist environment, the Machon Meir English Department caters to newcomers with little previous Jewish studies background, as well as students with more advanced skills. We provide Jewish studies in the morning, followed by Hebrew Ulpan studies in the afternoon.

This two-year integrated program is designed for students who wish to study the Middle East: religion, politics, societies, history, and cultures. The program is offered in conjunction with the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Students have the opportunity to study with some of the leading scholars in the field, while living in Jerusalem, one of the most important and dynamic cities of the Middle East. Graduates of the program have assumed positions in government service, relevant NGOs and journalism and other areas.

Mach Hach BaAretz is the premier summer tour of Israel for tenth graders. Through original programming, visits to historical sites, and activities engaging in modern Israel, Mach Hach Ba’Aretz participants experience Israel first-hand and develop a deeper understanding and connection to Eretz YIsrael. Join us for this once in a lifetime trip!

The Mechinah is a preparatory program for new immigrants and tourists intending to embark on academic studies in Israel. The Mechinah offers a year program, which aims at familiarizing the student with the teaching methods of the university and prepare him/her for further studies in institutions of higher education in Israel.

Darchei Binah is an advanced Torah studies program for post high school women who are committed to top level Torah observance.

Our 5-month semester programs offers students an in-depth and all-encompassing experience of permaculture, sustainability, communal living, and Israel and its people. Students receive an internationally recognized certificate in permaculture design. The extended length of the program allows us to broaden our curriculum to include more hands-on opportunities and additional coursework.

The Arava program offers interdisciplinary environmental studies with weekly seminars on peace-building, dialogue, and environmental leadership. The student body comprises of Israeli, Palestinian Jordanian and other young adults from around the world. The program is one semester or an academic year and affiliated with Ben Gurion University of the Desert.