Chaluztim Ba’aretz – Bus 2
Meet Your Madrichim GUCI in Israel Bus 5!
Ready for Summer 2022? Here’s how to follow along the journey
Welcome families! This summer, your teen will embark on the journey of a lifetime with NFTY in Israel! Our teams in the US and Israel are working tirelessly to prepare for another amazing summer! As you prepare for the departure of your teen, we want to take a moment...
International Day of Women & Girls in Science
"I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist." - Ada Yonath, an Israeli who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in...
Blessings and Curses and What is in Between
By Rabbi Loren Sykes, Director of Israel Immersives The itinerary for the last week of NFTY in Israel trips focuses on Medinat Yisrael, the modern State of Israel. During this part of the trip, teens… Take a graffiti tour of Tel Aviv. Explore the Peres Center for...
Contemplating the End of Summer
By Corey Rudman, Bus 18 Hello to all. My name is Corey Rudman. In contemplating what to write for this very blog post that you, the parents, are currently reading, I had a variety of options to choose from; I could've written about the past week in a basic format,...
Say Hi to Bus 19!
The Beautiful Land of Israel
By Rabbi Loren Sykes, Director of Israel Immersives This week, I visited our teens in Northern Israel while they were at the Sea of Galilee, the Kinneret. It was a typical hot, humid summer day in Israel, making the cool waters of the Kinneret even more attractive for...
Feeling Welcome in the Jewish Homeland
By Alexa Coultoff, Bus 14 Being 6600 miles away or more from our homes in the United States, it’s been incredible to find familiarity in Jewish traditions here in Israel. For example, this week we traveled to the holy city of Tzfat in the North of Israel. Stepping off...
Masada and the Negev with Bus 18
Written by Alexandra Grushkin and edited by Ilan Louie-Cohen Today we were awoken by our counselors at 3:30AM after a night in the Bedouin tents. Getting out of our sleeping bags was difficult, but excitement was an excellent motivator. We were going to climb up...
Bus 17: Here Comes the Sun
By Dayna Pinsky “Welcome to Maaaaasada” our fearless leader/dad/grandpa/magician/professional bongo player, Ofek, said excitedly over the loud speaker of our bus. For the past two or three days before the hike, the joke of ‘maaaaaasada’ was circling around bus 17,...
Financial
Assistance
NFTY in Israel believes the opportunity to travel to Israel is one that cannot be missed. Many organizations support our mission of sending teens to Israel for a fun, educational and meaningful journey. To help offset the cost of a summer on NFTY in Israel, local communities, such as synagogues and federations, provide scholarship and financial aid to families.