Go to Israel

I think the best way for me to do this is to go on the Birthright trip. I applied last year, but the campus trip ended up running up until the last day before classes started in the spring semester, and due to athletic commitments, I had to be back earlier than that.

I’ll apply again for the campus trip. I have a few other eligible friends who haven’t been yet, so it could be really fun.

Hi Im a Moroccain 26 years and im soccer player with my city team here in Morocco
and wanna to go in israel to live or Recruitment into the israelien army
if u can to do this helpe can u answerd me plz
thx

One down..(maybe).So many others to go

I applied to go to Israel with “Israel Outdoors- Israel by foot” throught Taglit Birthright. Hopefully I’ll be going this summer. I really want to go in May so that I can be a camp councilor this summer, but the Israel by foot trips are only offered in jun and July thus far, so I might have to be a camp councilor locally at the YMCA and just ask for 10 days off, but have that be my only time off for the entire summer… We’ll see. I’m excited though!

Perhaps now isn’t the best time for this goal.

I found out a while back that the trip was canceled by the sponsoring organization. Don’t know when the next opportunity to go will be.

I am not sure when I will do this. I will try to aim for Spring Break, but it will probably be in January of next year.

I think this won’t happen for awhile. I will be vacationing with friends or my husband alternating each year. This year is a friend year (Italy). Earlier this year I went to South Korea and Hawaii with my husband and last year we went to Spain for our pre-wedding honeymoon. (I’m not a travel snob – I never left the country before a few years ago – I earned these trips.) In any case, I have this year’s vacation planned. My husband says that we have to go to Palestine before Israel because Palestine won’t let you in if you have an Israeli passport stamp. So, we either wait until the passport has one spot left or we go Palestine first. This will be a long wait.

Found a couple of resources where instead of just visiting as a tourist I could actual go and work there for 5 months (more or less depending on the program). I got super excited about this when I heard about it. It’s really hard to explain to someone who’s not Jewish or has never been in IL why it’s so magical.

Still the programs start at 3700$ USD, that’s not including insurance, airfare and spending money for when I get there, because I won’t actually be making any money working. I think that this is more like a 2012 plan that sounds like it’s going to end up being something like 10 grand.

Then again, I’d like to be saving for my downpayment at that point, so I don’t know what my priorities will be.

I sent in the paperwork with my check yesterday! My parents are loaning me the money and I’ll pay them back in a couple of months. This way I won’t wipe out my savings account. Woohoo!