Israeli Government Allocates $100M to Birthright, Educational Zionist Trip
IMEMC and Agencies | January 12, 2011
Israel increases funding for Birthright, a 10-day free educational trip to Israel, which aims to bring 51,000 Jewish young adults to Israel annually by 2013
According to Ynetnews, last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the government has approved $100 million in funding for Taglit-Birthright Israel over the next three years.
The goal of the funding increase is to enable Taglit-Birthright Israel to bring 51,000 young Jewish adults annually on the 10-day free educational trip by 2013, which would mean that one in every two Jewish young adults worldwide will have gone to Israel on a Birthright trip.
The 10 day trip takes participants to tourist sites only within Israel. Participants are not taken to areas where Arab Israelis reside, nor are they encouraged to visit occupied East Jerusalem or the West Bank.
In 2010, 30,000 young adults participated in Birthright Israel trips, while some 30,000 others were waitlisted due to lack of funding capacity.
“I am proud that I was the first Israeli prime minister who supported the Birthright Israel project. This bold idea is a great success. Today it is the way tens of thousands of young Jews from around the world strengthen their connection to Judaism and Israel,” said Netanyahu.
Since it began in 2000, over a quarter million young adults from more than 53 countries have participated in the free educational trip to Israel. They have been accompanied by some 50,000 Israeli young adults, most of them in the army.
Over 70% of participants cite it as a “life-changing experience.”
“Taglit-Birthright Israel began as a vision of the Israeli government, philanthropists and Jewish communities, and in the course of the decade, it has become the most successful Zionist project in the Jewish world,” said Gidi Mark, CEO of Taglit-Birthright Israel.
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I feel an empty vagueness in my life and it is because my mother, being born in Norway, left me with the attitude that I should do a return visit to Norway and reclaim that heritage that time has left behind in the mists of the open sea which is MY life. I am to smite the locals and steal their land for an avocado farm for I am the Chosen One as are the rest of my Chosen race. Send 90$ million dollars to the federal prison of your choice to get the ball rolling. Its a good thing we have an organic fertilizer of a Congress that if not smelling up the place with their bad breath are wallowing in depravity and arrogance.
Congresspeople, tax revenues are not yours. If some Mossad agents caught and photographed you all having sex with chickens, your constituencies misjudged you and you should resign. This money for Israel crap should STOP. THEY DESERVE NOTHING. HOLOCAUST SHMOLOCAUST. JEWISH oriented genocide is a 2-way street. Them that gives, receives. What were the real names of the Bolshevik revolution leaders? How many Christians were slaughtered in the forests of Poland and Russia? Was Mao-tse Tung a member of the Yale Skull and Bones Society? Our United States Constitution reads, “We the people,” not “we, the jive-assed punks”. Get a clue Congress and stop funding for these hoodlums. Are you afraid to? SPEAK UP. I CAN”T HEAR YOU. I HATE MELODRAMA.
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