Some 400 American Jewish youth are leaving this week for varying periods of summer study in Israel.
A group of 137 students sailed today on the SS Shalom for a year of study at the Hebrew University. Representing 63 colleges and universities in 26 states and Canada, they are enrollees in the 12th annual American Student Program of the American Friends of the Hebrew University.
Thirty-eight members of Junior Hadassah left by air last night for a seven-week summer institute. The girls range in age from 16 to 19. They will visit and work in various cooperative settlements and in Eilat. They will take part in special courses and seminars with emphasis on the Hebrew language, and will visit Hadassah institutions. They will also be given opportunities to live in the homes of Israeli families.
Another group of 120 students will participate in the Yeshiva University Tenth Annual Summer in Israel and European Extension Tour program. The program will begin with the departure of the young men and women from the United States on July 3. It will conclude with a return on August 24. The participants will spend 17 days in five European countries before going to Israel on July 21.
More than 100 teen-agers, Jewish high school students from all parts of the United States and Canada, will leave by air on July 6 for a seven week work-and-study tour of Israel under auspices of the Masada Young Zionists, the youth division of the Zionist Organization of America. Another group of young adults will leave New York on July 13 for a 21-day tour of Israel and Europe under Masada auspices. It will be made up of adults aged 18 to 30.
The enrollment in the Hebrew University program is 50 percent larger than the 1965 group and is a record for the program, officials said. Participants were chosen from nearly 200 applicants and will receive credit from their schools in the United State for their study at the Hebrew University. Intensive study of Hebrew will be provided aboard ship and will continue for the first three and a half months of the year of study.
Scholarships of varying amounts totaling $51,000 have been awarded to 70 of the students by the American friends of the Hebrew University. Contributions for the scholarships included $10,000 from the Sundel and Margaret Doniger Foundation and a grant of 20,000 Israeli pounds ($7,000) from the Israel District of B’nai B’rith.
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