More than 1,500 American Jews between the ages of 25-40 will visit Israel April 10-20, 1983, as participants in “Yachad,” the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Mission, David Greene, chairman of the UJA National Young Leadership Cabinet, and Nita Levy, Young Women’s Leadership Cabinet chair person, have announced.
Carl Kaplan, Young Leadership Cabinet Missions chairman, and Karen Adler, Mission chairperson of the Young Women’s Leadership Cabinet, both of Washington, D.C., will lead the Mission, which is jointly sponsored by the two Cabinets.
“‘Yachad’ is the Hebrew word meaning ‘together’, ” Greene and Levy said in their announcement, “and we look upon this Mission as a time for young American Jews to stand together with the young Jews of Israel, an historic opportunity to express their solidarity with them.”
The Joint announcement said that this is the only National Young leadership mission UJA is offering this year and that it is being designed for those who have never been to Israel before or who have never been on a UJA mission to the Jewish homeland. The Yachad Mission itinerary will begin on April 10 — with special Holocaust Day remembrance ceremonies at each of the gateway airports throughout the U.S. from which participants will depart for Israel.
Highlights of the Mission include a celebration of Israel’s 35th anniversary on April 18, Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day; participation in Israel’s commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on April 19, and home hospitality with the next generation of Israeli leadership. Also planned are a torchlight ceremony atop Masada and intensive Project Renewal programming.
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