The Jewish Agency for Israel held a day of activities to encourage foreign Jews studying in Israel to come back on longer-term programs. Some of the 1,200 students spent Sunday visiting the sites of long-term programs throughout the country in the framework of a new initiative called MASA, sponsored jointly by the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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