Real Life Israel | Israel Immersion Program
Program Overview
Key Program Components:
- Hebrew Ulpan
- Trips & treks throughout Israel
- Apartments located in Jerusalem
- Volunteer opportunities
- Israel Life Skills training
- Personalize program for each participant
- Social and cultural immersion
- Professional Internships
- Hebrew Ulpan
- Trips & treks throughout Israel
- Apartments located in Jerusalem
- Volunteer opportunities
- Israel Life Skills training
- Personalize program for each participant
- Social and cultural immersion
Real Life Israel is designed for those individuals interested in exploring what living in Israel is truly like. As such RLI is the ultimate program for anyone considering living in Israel or who simply wants the most true-to-life Israel immersion experience that exists. Learn why RLI is unique or check out the program calendar.
- Successful Professional Life whereby you know how to land a great job or start a successful venture on your own. Learn more.
- Fulfilling Personal Life with friends, family and community by building a great social network as well as living in an area whose standard of living and values you should find comfortable and recognizable. View details.
- Enjoying the "Value Added" of Life in Israel by taking advantage of Israel's amazing historic sites, great weather, four seas, diverse geography, interesting people, fantastic food, living Judaism, exciting cities, vibrant cultural scene and much, much more. See what we mean.
On the program, participants will explore in depth -- through high-level meetings, interactive workshops, intensive seminars, educational classes, professional internships, volunteer opportunities, relaxing Shabbatonim/weekends, fantastic outdoor treks among other methods -- each of the many subject areas represented by each of the pillars. Check out what you get.
As a result of the program, participants will have gained tremendous insight, skills and knowledge about Israel, Israeli society in all its many facets and about themselves and their relationship with the Jewish State. Those that opt to stay and live in Israel will be on the fast-track to a successful and meaningful life in Israel. Participants who plan on returning to their former residences will benefit from the deep personal growth associated with a powerful immersion program as well as an augmented professional resume.
Partial List of Seminars Planned for Participants of RLI
- Orientation to Real Life in Israel - Welcome to Israel and your life.
- Business & Working in Israel Symposium - A three-day symposium dedicated to helping you envision your successful professional life in Israel. Participants will meet with top-level executives, visit the headquarters of major Israeli firms and organizations as well as meet with venture capitalists, investment bankers, economists and government officials. We'll visit hi-tech parks as well as areas of traditional industry, learn from highly successful sabra and immigrant professionals and gain insight to starting and running your own business or organization in Israel, and much more.
- The Army Seminar - Learn about the army, its structure, history and its role in society; meet with top officers in Israel's officer training bases, hang out with today's elite fighting units, see the fighter airbases that keep Israel's enemies deterred.
- Politics & Society Summit - Politics plays an inordinate role in Israel. During this seminar, participants will learn from primary sources during meetings with top leaders, Members of Knesset and government functunaries. We'll explore how governance is manifest by seeing first hand how Knesset decisions affects society and the daily lifes of all Israelis whether they be Jews, Arabs or Druze, religious or secular, city-dwellers, kibbutzniks or settlers, rich or poor.
In addition, ongoing informal workshops will be held on a regular basis throughout the program and will include meetings with top members of Israeli academia, philosophers, rabbis, spritual guides and community leaders.