Young Women’s Mission to Israel
July 1-9, 2020
This mission is intended for young women who have never been on a Women’s Philanthropy mission to Israel. Mission participants will have the opportunity to make a meaningful gift to the 2021 UJA Annual Campaign.
Highlights (more details below)
- Meet Israeli women who are making a difference
- Usher in Shabbat at the Western Wall
- Participate in hands-on activities
- Visit our partner communities
Cost: $3,599 per person, land-only; based on double occupancy
$1,199 single supplement
Limited subsidies may be available
Mindunn Rose, Mission Chair
Registration is now open.
For more information and to register contact Robin Leitner, Assistant Director, Women’s Philanthropy, at rleitner@jfedgmw.org or (973) 929-3035 or Heidi Kuperman, Missions Director, at hkuperman@jfedgmw.org or (973) 929-3046.
Cost (land only):
$3,599 per person based on double occupancy; $1,199 single supplement
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU BUY TRAVEL INSURANCE AS THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THE STRICT CANCELLATION POLICY
Cost Includes
Accommodations:
3 nights Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem
1 night Milos Hotel, Dead Sea
2 nights David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv
Amenities:
- Daily full buffet breakfast
- 5 lunches, 5 dinners
- Deluxe air-conditioned bus
- Tour guides
- All programming as outlined in the final itinerary
- Water on bus
- Porterage
TENTATIVE ITINERARY HIGHLIGHTS
- Israel Update briefing
- ODT (Outdoor Training) Activity
- Hands-on projects
- The Frontline of Women in Medical Research: meet women doctors who are making a difference
- Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum)
- The Machane Yehuda Market
- Kabbalat Shabbat in the Old City
- Festive Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem
- Briefing by Prof. Dr. Ofer Merin, director general of Shaare Zedek Medical Center
- The Center for Tolerance in Abu Ghosh
- ATV rides in the Jerusalem countains
- Greater MetroWest Lions’ Leap—a new initiative: the renovation of Arad Music Conservatory
- Night hike near the Dead Sea. There will be a full moon!
- Sunrise yoga on a cliff with a magnificent view of the desert or a morning climb of Masada
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Visit the Kol Isha Center in Ofakim, a Greater MetroWest NJ Partnership community
- Home hospitality lunch
- Meet with Lone Soldiers at Kibbutz Erez, a Greater MetroWest NJ Partnership community near the border of Gaza
- Early morning surfing and leadership workshop at HaGal Sheli
- Meet women athletes from Team Israel before they leave for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Cooking workshop with our partnership women from Horfeish
- Private meeting with one of the new members of the Knesset
- Tour the Peres Center for Peace & Innovation, including the new Israeli Innovation Center
- Tour of Old Jaffa and the port
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