Tikun Olam in Tel Aviv

  Israel

Tel Aviv

Term: Fall, Spring 
Durations of Program: 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 7-12 months
Dates: Sep 2008- June 2009

Description: This program offers Jewish English-speaking College graduates from around the world the opportunity to spend five to ten months engaged in volunteer service in Tel Aviv with a community of Israeli activist.

Part I Ulpan Kibbutz: Our program starts with one month in a kibbutz including full board. Participants will learn spoken Hebrew intensively with professional teachers from Hebrew University, volunteer in the Kibbutz, get to know the group and enjoy the tranquility life style of the Kibbutz .

Part II - Live and volunteer in Tel-Aviv: For the duration of the program, participants live in Tel Aviv and volunteer in community service programs, alongside their Israeli peers. For these four to eight months, participants will continue to learn Hebrew and partake in courses and workshops on Israeli society and Jewish and Hebrew culture in Bina's new center in south Tel Aviv the Secular Yeshiva

Get To Know Israel : During the time in Tel Aviv we will have two days trip outside of Tel Aviv and lot's of day trips, that's hoe participants will get different parts of Israel.

The program will culminate with a seminar. Participants will receive official certificates from the Tel Aviv Municipality in recognition and appreciation of their contribution to the city, and to Israeli society.

Highlights:
1. Be Independent - Spend a year on your own in the city. In Tikun Olam in Tel-Aviv you have the opportunity to be independent most time of the week. You can have a room for yourself in the apartments we rent for you and your friends.
      
2. Be a part of a group - Tikun Olam in Tel-Aviv is group program and there for provide you with the framework of accommodations, seminars, trips, and study together with your partners.
      
3. Experience the real Israel Experience Israel as it really is: a multi cultural society. develop new relationships with young people from Israel.
      
4. Meet young people like you from around the world Tikun Olam in Tel-Aviv and BINA is the place were idealistic young adults meet.

5. Live in Tel-Aviv - soak up the sun on the beach. Enjoy the bit of the city with its museums, cinemas, festivals, and night life. Tel-Aviv is the New York of Israel
      
6. Explore your heritage BINA is providing with seminars and studies that enable you to interact with Jewish texts and traditions. Find your Jewish side in one of the many facets of Israel's Jewish heritage.
      
7. Tools for your future - Take a giant step towards your future by acquiring the tools you need to succeed: leadership skills, independence, working with people from a myriad of cultures, developing responsibility these are just some of the skills you will develop in Tikun Olam in Tel-Aviv.
      
8. Make a big difference Israel is a small country where everyone counts. You can make a big difference by being here By volunteering, with Tel-Aviv Jaffa less fortunate population.

Qualifications: This program offers Jewish English-speaking College graduates from around the world the opportunity to spend five to ten months engaged in volunteer service in south Tel Aviv with a community of Israeli activist
we are looking for young idealist jews who are seeking for meaningful expirience in Israel, to volunteer and study with the isralies.

Cost in US$: 5500-9000

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: The volunteer work includes: Rehabilitating the houses of families living in bad housing conditions; assisting children growing up in extremely poor conditions to break the cycle of poverty through education and enrichment; aid for the foreign community; serving in a multi-professional therapeutic center for children and their parents; working toward building true Jewish-Arab coexistence; individual tutoring; teaching a class in English; leading a Chug in a particular subject or interest; working with the elderly and implementing after-school programs for the children; assist with fundraising, Graphic Design...and many more opportunities. Participants can also initiate their own volunteer project in Tel Aviv

Age Range: 21-26

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European and South African Participants.

Participants Travel to Israel Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 15-20

Scholarships are Available. - A MASA scholarship application form for long-term educational stays in Israel. Fill it out and send back by mail.

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview Required
• Resume
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Tikun Olam in Tel Aviv's Mission Statement: We facilitate a volunteer program in Tel Aviv called Tikun Olam In Tel Aviv. This program offers Jewish English-speaking College graduates from around the world the opportunity to spend five to ten months engaged in volunteer service in south Tel Aviv with a community of Israeli activist.

Year Founded: 1995

Tikun Olam in Tel Aviv is a Jewish Program based organization. We do require our participants to be of the same faith. Our volunteers will not be involved in religious proselytizing.