PROGRAMS AND GRANTS
Our Israel and Overseas Department fosters the deep connection we feel to Israel and Jews around the world through local celebrations, education and advocacy. A main focus of the department is to provide information about the many ways to spend time in Israel, especially for young adults and seniors. Occasionally, there are grants available for qualified programs in Israel. Apply here.
If you are thinking of spending time in Israel and want to do more than tour the country, check out the programs below.
TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES:
Taglit-Birthright Israel
If you are a Jewish Canadian between the ages of 18–26 don’t miss this opportunity to visit Israel for free! This year, accept your CIE Birthright Israel gift. Apply now.
MASA: Israel Journey
The gateway to long-term Israel Programs. Through grants and scholarships MASA offers over 150 opportunities for you to live, learn, volunteer, explore, and connect. Find your program.
The Gideon Program
A volunteer program for active retirees. Volunteering for four-to-eight week periods, and hosted in a range of Netanya hotels, group members share their experience and love for Israel in a wide range of public institutions across the country. Learn more.
Israel Wonders
A great resource for the tourist in Israel. Check out this website!
March of the Living
Join thousands from around the world for an experience that will last a lifetime. This year's trip occurs April 7-22, 2010. Application deadline is extended. To download an application click here. To download a grant application, click here.
Parliamentary Internship Program
Are you a a university graduate interested in a career in politics? This year-long placement in an MP’s office involves working with members in the House of Commons in a variety of different areas. Past interns have gone on to work for a wide range of MPs from across the country.
Career Israel Program
A five month professional program, providing internship placements in leading companies and organizations in the private and public sectors in Israel in every field. The program also includes accommodations, a Hebrew study program, tours, and extracurricular activities.
Israel Government Fellows
IGF fellowships offer exceptional candidates from around the world firsthand experience working in Israel's government offices in Jerusalem for ten months. The program, which is the first one that enables non-Israelis to intern in the core of Israel's policymaking apparatus, includes professional seminars, mentoring sessions, Hebrew language classes and tours.
Kibbutz Program Centre
A Kibbutz Movement program that enables Jewish young adults to tailor-make their own Israel experience, based on their specific needs and desires. Choose from existing programs, or build a program that suits you.
The focus is on Hebrew language education and on experiencing the unique society that is Kibbutz life. There are opportunities for volunteers, students, and interested participants to take part in environmental/green, peace and co-existence projects and in social activism within Israel.
Otzma
Otzma offers Jewish young adults, the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution of service to Israel in a variety of settings, by promoting direct contact and strengthening ties between North American Jews and Israelis. Participants will have the opportunity to develop leadership qualities, explore their Jewish identity and gain a deep understanding of Israel over a ten month period.
Avodah – The Jewish Service Corps
Spend a year working in a non-profit organization and living communally with other Jewish people. The Jewish Service Corps engages young people in direct work on the causes and effects of poverty in the United States. Participants in the service Corps program live out and deepen their commitments to social change and Jewish life through a year of full-time work at anti-poverty organizations.
JDC – Jewish Service Corps
Volunteers are currently serving in Austria, Belarus, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Moldova, Turkey, and Ukraine. JDC offers four different volunteer opportunities—from year long placements to week long trips for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals. JDC's Jewish Service programs offer young Jews the opportunity to directly engage with the work of the largest Jewish humanitarian aid organization in the world.
Eco- Israel
Eco-Israel is an intimate program that offers participants the opportunity to explore how Ecology, Judaism and Israel come together in a working model of a self-sustaining ecological community. Eco-Israel offers Jewish young adults the opportunity to embrace sustainable living through intensive hands-on experience and coursework on an organic farm.
GET INVOLVED!
For more information, please contact Director, Israel and Overseas Affairs, If'at Eilon-Heiber at 604.257.5100 or iheiber@jewishvancouver.com