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For information about volunteer programs in Israel, contact Aaron Goldberg at aarong@masaisrael.org or (212) 339-6077.
All eligible participants will receive a Masa grant and/or Masa needs based scholarship. Please visit www.masaisrael.org to apply for a grant and/or scholarship.
All programs listed include housing and Hebrew ulpan (intensive language classes) unless otherwise noted below. Program costs do not include board (meals) or airfare to and from Israel unless noted below. Please consult with the individual program organizer’s website for specific information about what is included in each program’s cost.
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: August - January (Fall); January - June (Spring)
Program Cost: $5,600 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
Because We Care is an innovative, volunteer-based program that gives participants the opportunity to use their own knowledge and experience to make a lasting impact on Israeli teenagers. Participants live at Hakfar Hayarok (The Green Village), a kibbutz-type youth village just north of Tel Aviv, and divide their time working on the farm, teaching a subject(s) of their choice in English, studying Hebrew and more.
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: August-January (Fall), February-June (Spring)
Program Cost: $7,000* Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
Build your resume while volunteering in a fascinating combination of situations. In the mornings you’ll be working as assistant English teachers in the Arab town of Kafar Kara, while in the afternoons you’ll be helping in the eco-greenhouse at Kibbutz Ein Shemer, where Jewish and Arab Israeli youth come together to put both coexistence and ecology into practice in the most natural way.
*Additional $1,000 subsidy available from IsraelExperts
Duration: 10 months
Start/End Dates: August-June
Program Cost: $8,100* Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $4,500*
Build your resume while helping Israeli kids from families that suffer from a variety of circumstances – many but not all socioeconomic – that prevent them from fully integrating positively into Israeli society. The needs are tremendous, more than can be provided by either local or national available resources. And that’s where trained, skilled, college graduate volunteers can make a tremendous difference. Working in disadvantaged neighborhoods as mentors for the youngsters and teens, as tutors, or in a myriad of other professional positions, you can change lives for the better.
*Additional $2,200 subsidy available from IsraelExperts
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: August-January
Program Cost: $7,000* Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
This is a wonderful opportunity for established women artists! Daliat el-Carmel is looking for female graduate artists in music; drama; painting; sculpture; pottery; etc. – in short, all of the performing and visual arts, to volunteer at their arts center. The art center is used both by the pupils at the schools in Daliat el-Carmel and by the population of the surrounding area. You will teach English through the arts, and also have the opportunity to work on your own art! Daliat el-Carmel is the largest Druze town in Israel, located in the heart of the beautiful Carmel National Park, southeast of Haifa.
*Additional $1,000 subsidy available from IsraelExperts
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: Rolling
Program Cost: $3,000 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
With its focus on Israel’s peripheral communities, Oranim’s Free Community Involvement program offers participants an opportunity to experience Israel by living and working among its citizens, strengthening their ties with the country and its people. Program coordinators work one-on-one with each participant to determine his or her passions, interests and talents and then place the volunteers accordingly.
Duration: 6 months
Start/End Dates: October - March
Program Cost: $10,900* Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
The Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute, in conjunction with IsraelExperts – Initiatives in Education, offers post-college students an exhilarating chance to experience “hands on Zionism” in a way that brings to life the real experience of living in the Negev for six months. This special program exposes participants to the heritage of David Ben-Gurion, and provides insights into Israel’s history, Jewish Peoplehood, and the participants themselves. The program combines a rich study program and unique volunteering opportunities with Jewish and Bedouin populations in the desert.
*Additional $1,000 subsidy available from IsraelExperts. Cost includes full board
Duration: 8 months
Start/End Dates: September - April, February - October
Program Cost: $11,600 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000
LeadEarth is a leadership program for young professionals who want to gain experience in social action, community empowerment, and environmental and international development. Volunteers have the opportunity to immerse themselves in Israeli and Indian life. In the first part of the program, participants live study and volunteer in Kibbutz Ein Zivan. Receive professional training in the fields of sustainable development and project management. In the second part of the program, volunteers move to the Tamil Nadu region of India where they live in a community of international volunteers and work with grassroots NGOs, including, Center for Culture and Development (CCD) and Sadhana Forest. These organization guide the volunteers in initiating, developing and operating a community project of their own focused on spreading environmental awareness through informal education.
Duration: 8.5 months
Start/End Sates: October-July
Program Cost: $11,950** Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000* A hands-on volunteer and study program living in an Israeli community for five months, working with Israelis, helping children and youth lead richer lives as well as touring Israel and exploring your Jewish identity. Then it’s three months volunteering in Uganda giving and sharing your knowledge, experience and passion with children there.
Duration: 10 months
Start/End Dates: September – June
Program Cost: $13,000 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $4,500*
OTZMA offers young Jewish adults the opportunity to live and volunteer in Israel, enabling them to make a meaningful contribution of service to its under-served communities. Participants spend time at an immigrant absorption center, study Jewish text in Jerusalem or Tzfat or volunteer on an army base, and serve in diverse capacities such as teaching English, working with the elderly, and implementing after-school programs for children in the community.
**Additional $3,000 Federation Scholarship Available**
Duration: 10 months
Start/End Dates: September – June
Program Cost: $9,000 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $4,500*
OTZMA’s Israel Teacher Corps (ITC) is a 10-month program designed for North American college graduates interested in teaching English in under-served Israeli public schools. Following a pre-service training, ITC Volunteers move to their partnership communities in groups of 3 or 4 and serve as English teachers’ aides and/or English Resource Teachers in their schools, working with students approximately 35 hours per week.
**Additional $3,000 Federation Scholarship Available**
Duration: 10 months
Start/End Dates: August-June
Program Cost: $10,600* Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $4,500*
Build your resume while helping marginal or disenfranchised youth in Israel! Live and work at a residential youth village. The children and teens that come to live and study at these frameworks that are partially supported by the Ministry of Welfare are given the extra help they need both in their studies and in socialization. English-speaking college grads are invited to gain hands-on experience by working in their own specialized field, under professional supervision, where each volunteer will make a difference in the lives of others. Opportunities exist for English tutors/teachers, social workers, sports counselors, arts & crafts specialists, mentors for students, drama, dance and music specialists, graduates in the various therapies, etc.
*Additional $2,200 subsidy available from IsraelExperts. Cost includes full board.
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: Rolling
Program Cost: $7,200 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
Oranim’s Tel Aviv Community Involvement Program offers participants a means by which to completely immerse themselves into Israeli society – by living among its citizens, working in the multi-dimensional peripheral communities of Tel Aviv-Yafo, making a difference among the disadvantaged, and learning Hebrew and practicing it in their daily activities.
Duration: 5 or 10 months
Start/End Dates: September - February (Fall); February - June (Spring)
Program Cost: 5 months: $6,500 (Single), $5,500 (Shared)
10 months: $9,500 (Single), $8,500 (Shared)
Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: 5 months: $3,000*, 10 months: $4,500*
The award-winning Tikkun Olam in Tel Aviv-Jaffa offers college graduates the opportunity to volunteer and study in low-income neighborhoods of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Community Service Track participants live in a working-class Tel Aviv neighborhood work in South Tel Aviv’s poor Jewish neighborhoods and growing foreign worker and refugee community. Coexistence Track participants live in historic Jaffa and volunteer in community centers and organizations that promote Arab-Israeli coexistence and understanding.
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: September – February (Fall); March – August (Spring)
Program Cost: $7,600 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
The WUJS Jerusalem Learning Program combines in-depth coursework in Judaism and Zionism, volunteer involvement in the local community, Hebrew language instruction, organized group excursions, and cultural events throughout Israel to feed both body and soul. Participants experience tremendous personal growth, develop their Hebrew language skills, give back to the community, and explore Jewish and Israeli history and the themes that are central to Israel in the 21st century.
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: September – February (Fall); March – August (Spring)
Program Cost: $7,600 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
The WUJS Peace and Social Justice Program offers those with a passion for social change a unique opportunity to pursue the areas of peace, democratic development and social justice through intensive classroom learning and placement in a Jerusalem-based grassroots social change organization. The program explores the fundamentals of Zionism, Jewish thought and culture and contemporary Israeli society.
Duration: 5 months
Start/End Dates: September - February Program Cost: $5,500 Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: $3,000*
The Yahel Social Change Program is a service learning experience for young adults between the ages of 21 and 27. Based in Gedera, the program combines hands-on volunteer work with in-depth learning and immersion and is offered in collaboration with Friends by Nature - a local grassroots non-profit organization working to empower and educate the Ethiopian community. Participants live, volunteer and learn alongside their peers from the local Ethiopian-Israeli community.
*Final grant and scholarship amounts are determined only by submitting a Masa scholarship application at www.masaisrael.org. All grants and scholarships quoted here are for informational purposes.
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