1) “Multiculturalism through Israeli Cinema” – Film expert Ayelet Goldin
2) “The Moshavim and Kibbutzim of the Jordan Valley” – Yogev Karasenty, agriculturalist and antisemitism expert, Ministry of Diaspora Affairs
3) Meeting with David Elhayani, Head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council
4) Community Presentations by YJLDS participants: Western and Southern Europe
1) Visit Michve Alon, IDF Education Corps base
2) Tour of the Golan Heights with Major (Res.) Sarit Zehavi
3) Mt. Bental Observation Point on Syrian Border
4) Nahal Snir water hike
5) Dinner with Tiberias Mayor Yosef Ben David
1) Shabbat dinner with lone soldiers
2) Guided tour of Jaffa/Neve Tzedek
3) “Musical Havdala” – Shechter Institute
4) “Forbidden Aid: Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria” – Nir Boms, Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, and International Center for Counter Terrorism in Herzliya
5) “Minorities in Israel’s Foreign Service” – Meeting with Israeli Bedouin diplomat, Ismail Khaldi in al-Khawaled village
6) Tour of Isfiya Druze village and traditional lunch with Ambassador Reda Mansour
7) “Shoah Memory in Israeli Society” – Tour of Ghetto Fighters House Museum
8) Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta’ot with Israeli students
9) Night cruise on Lake Kineret
1) “Briefing and Observation on Gaza” – Kobi Aroush, Sderot Chief Security Officer
2) “At the Gates of Gaza: Netiv Ha’asara” – A conversation with residents of a Gaza border moshav
3) “Understanding the Unrecognized Bedouin Village Issue” – Visit to Bir Mashash
4) “Preserving Ethiopian Culture in Israel” – Visit to Atachlit, Beta Yisrael village in Kiryat Gat
5) Israel and the State of Art: Tour of the Tel Aviv Art Museum
1) “The View and Vision of the Judea-Samaria Leadership” – Yishai Fleisher, lawyer and international spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hebron
2) Visit at ALEH Negev, Nahalat Eran Rehabilitation Village
3) Viewing of “Rock in the Red Zone” at Sderot Cinemateque
4) Lunch at Guta Restaurant, Sderot with Noam Bedein of the Sderot Media Center
1) “The Second Exodus: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries” – Visit to the Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center
2) “Play: Not by Bread Alone” – Theater of the Hearing and Sight Impaired
3) “The Near and Immediate Middle East: Challenge, Danger and Opportunity” – Professor Jonathan Spyer, Director, Rubin Center, IDC Herzliya
4) “A Palestinian Viewpoint” – Bashar Azzeh, leading Palestinian entrepreneur and activist
5) Living on the Edge: Strategic Tour of the Outer Neighborhoods of Jerusalem
6) “Challenges and Opportunities in Israel’s Muslim Community” – Meeting with the Qadi Iyad Zahalka, the Qadi of Jerusalem and Supreme Justice of the Sharia Appeals Court
1) “Combating Antisemitism Today: Problems, Strategies and Solutions” – Ran Yaakoby, Director of Department for Combating Antisemitism, MFA
2) Community Presentations by YJLDS participants: Latin America
3) Community Presentations by YJLDS participants: Central and Eastern Europe
4) “A Vision for the Jewish People: Bridging the Israel-Diaspora Divide” – Akiva Tor, Head of Bureau for World Jewish Affairs and World Religions, MFA
5) Meetings with regional desk officers, MFA
6) How Should Israel be Jewish? A Religious Pluralism Roundtable
Our schedule so far:
1) Meeting with Ambassador Yuval Rotem, Director General of MFA
2) “Am Yisrael Today: Jewish Identity and Jewish Continuity” – Dr. Dov Maimon, Jewish People Policy Institute
3) “Pre-state Zionism: The Formative Ideas that Lead to the Creation of Israel” – Dr. Rani Jaeger, Shalom Hartman Institute
4) “The Main Challenges Before Diaspora Jewry” – Shmuel Rosner, Jewish People Policy Institute
5) Meeting with Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel
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