A program that sends young Jews on free trips to Israel plans to send more people this winter than it did last winter, despite significant drops in American Jewish travel to Israel during the Middle East violence. Birthright Israel has sent 22,000 Jews to Israel on group trips so far, 14,000 of them since the Palestinian uprising began last fall.
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