JLE Israel Tours
Summer and Winter in Israel
The Jewish Learning Exchange’s Israel Experience offers university students from the United States, Canada, England, South Africa and Australia a 3-8 week fast-track program of discovering Israel. The multi-method experience offers:
- ENCOUNTERS...in the past have included meetings with past Presidents and government Ministers, Knesset Members and the Mayor of Jerusalem.
- LECTURES...on Israel and World Jewry; Love and Hate; Personal Goals; Family Relationships; Jewish Destiny.
- TEXTS... a taste of the classics: Torah, Talmud, Siddur.
- TOURS...Jerusalem as the Center of the World; On the Knife’s Edge: Hiking and Swimming on the Golan Heights; Jews and Romans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Galilee; Masada: Preserving Jewish Independence; Israel’s Struggle for Security: The Battlefields of ‘48, ‘67, ‘73; Life Among the Bedouins: Coffee, Camels and Caravans.
The Summer and Winter Program in Israel is based at the main campus of Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem.