Over a thousand students and teachers from all over the United States and Canada will spend this summer in Israel as participants in a number of seven-to ten-week tours conducted in Israel by the Jewish Agency, it was announced here today by the Agency.
The largest number, about 700, will go under the sponsorship of the American Zionist Youth Foundation. More than 520 are enrolled in the seven-week travel, work and study program of the 16th annual Israel Summer Institute. The Institute features extensive tours throughout Israel and includes a two-week work period in a kibbutz.
Another American Youth Foundation program is Summer-in-a-Kibbutz, a tea-week program which includes seven weeks living on a kibbutz, ten days of organized tours and ten days of individual travel to places of personal interest. About 120 college students or graduates participate in this program.
The Summer Work-in-Israel program, conducted by PATWA, will this summer include 50 college students participating in a work program in Israel of six to 13 weeks duration. They will work in their own specialized fields in hospitals, laboratories, offices and factories in summer jobs arranged for them by PATWA.
The Agency’s Department of Education and Culture also sponsors a number of summer programs. More than 100 thirteen-year-old youngsters are enrolled in the 1964. Bar Mitzvah Pilgrimage. From its headquarters at Alorei Yitzchak, the youngsters will tour the country, and will participate in special ceremonies and receptions that will mark their visit to Israel during their Bar Mitzvah year.
For the third consecutive year, the Department will cooperate with the United Synagogue National Ramah Commission in sponsoring the Ramah-in-Israel program. About 85 participants will participate in daily intensive Hebraica studies, combined with touring. Thirty Jewish educators will participate in a Hebrew speaking workshop and tour for those engaged in Jewish education, while another group of 35 will spend the summer in an “Ulpan” program of daily intensive Hebrew language study.
In its policy of encouraging individual Jewish schools to organize their own homogeneous groups for study and travel in Israel, another unit, composed of 30 young people from Philadelphia and Kansas City, will participate in the Department’s Jewish School Study program. In cooperation with the New York Jewish Education Committee, the Department will again conduct the Israel Summer Seminar for High School students engaged in Hebrew language study in public high schools.
The Agency’s Torah Education and Culture Department will be sending three groups to Israel this summer. They will include 30 rabbis and educators who will be attending a summer seminar. In addition, two groups will inaugurate a year’s stay in Israel this summer.
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