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UJIA Israel Tour Bursary Fund
This summer, for the first time since 2019, Israel Tour is back. After what will be three years, we are finally in a position to take our community’s 16 and 17 year olds on one of the most important, seminal rites of passage for any Jewish teenager.  Plus ...

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Jacalyn Sank Da Costa
 

As you know I’ve worked for UJIA for many years and I’m passionate and committed to engaging our children and grandchildren with Israel to strengthen their love and connection to it. 

This summer for the first time in 3 years, UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16- and 17-year-olds on Summer Tour - an immersive, informal educational experience to Israel. ’Tour’ is a rite-of-passage which will have a lifechanging impact on those who participate. It did for me and it did for my son Sam. Our love and connection to israel was truly down to our own tour experiences. 

For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. It will deepen their relationship with the country as a key element of their Jewish identity. And it will be a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

However you may not know that 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary.  UJIA’s guiding principle is that no young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries.

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Will you please join me in supporting UJIA and helping to ensure that no young person gets left behind?
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Simon Wagman
 
In summer 2022, for the first time in 3 years, UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16- and 17-year-olds on Summer Tour - an immersive, informal educational experience to Israel. ’Tour’ is a rite-of-passage which will have a life changing impact on those who participate. For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. It will deepen their relationship with the country as a key element of their Jewish identity. And it will be a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

But, historically, 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary. UJIA’s guiding principle is that no young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries.

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Will you please join me in supporting UJIA and helping to ensure that no young person gets left behind?
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Martin Harris
 
In summer 2022, for the first time in 3 years, UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16- and 17-year-olds on Summer Tour - an immersive, informal educational experience to Israel. ’Tour’ is a rite-of-passage which will have a life changing impact on those who participate. For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. It will deepen their relationship with the country as a key element of their Jewish identity. And it will be a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

But, historically, 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary. UJIA’s guiding principle is that no young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries. 

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Will you please join me in supporting UJIA and helping to ensure that no young person gets left behind?
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Ruth Green
 
Did you or your children benefit from the experience of Israel Tour ?

Do you still have friends from that time?

Israel tour was an important part of my journey , my connection with Israel and the Jewish people and a springboard for my work with young people and counselling. The leadership skills I learnt in the peer led youth movements helped me and many others develop to become leaders both inside and outside the community today . 

In summer 2022, for the first time in 3 years, UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16 and 17 year-olds on Summer Tour - an immersive, informal educational experience to Israel. ’Tour’ is a rite-of-passage which will have a life changing impact on those who participate. For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. It will deepen their relationship with the country as a key element of their Jewish identity. And it will be a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

But, historically, 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary. UJIA’s guiding principle is that no young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries. 

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Please help me raise £10,000 towards the bursary pot which will ensure every young person is given this opportunity and hear how it literally changes people's lives.

Many thanks for your support - if you want to forward this to any of your friends from your time you are still in contact with - I would greatly appreciate it . 

Love Ruth xx
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Karen Goodkind
 

Israel tour is happening for the first time in 3 years, but 1 in 5 need a bursary in order to go! Please join me in making sure no young person is deprived of the opportunity to participate.

When I was 16 Israel tour didn’t exist, but my parents who were staunch Zionists made sure I developed a love for Israel by taking the family there at least once and sometimes twice a year. In the summer of 1974 aged 17 I went to work on a kibbutz in the Galil, it was the most fantastic experience that cemented a passion for Israel which has not wavered throughout my life and was the catalyst to my becoming a community lay leader and trustee of UJIA. 

Israel tour is not a holiday. It’s a life changing rite of passage for young Jewish people to experience, connect and learn about their Jewish homeland. For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. Tour is the single most important experience that shapes a young person’s thinking about their heritage and identity and it deepens their relationship with Israel. It is also a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16- and 17-year-olds on Summer Tour –but, historically, 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary. No young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries. 

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Will you please join me in supporting UJIA and helping to ensure that no young person gets left behind?
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Alexa Harris
 
In summer 2022, for the first time in 3 years, UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16- and 17-year-olds on Summer Tour - an immersive, informal educational experience to Israel. ’Tour’ is a rite-of-passage which will have a life changing impact on those who participate. For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. It will deepen their relationship with the country as a key element of their Jewish identity. And it will be a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

But, historically, 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary. UJIA’s guiding principle is that no young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries. 

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Will you please join me in supporting UJIA and helping to ensure that no young person gets left behind?
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Miles Webber
 
In summer 2022, for the first time in 3 years, UJIA, working in partnership with the 12 Zionist Youth Movements in the UK, will be taking over 1,300 16- and 17-year-olds on Summer Tour - an immersive, informal educational experience to Israel. ’Tour’ is a rite-of-passage which will have a life changing impact on those who participate. For many it will be the first time they will have visited Israel as part of a group. It will deepen their relationship with the country as a key element of their Jewish identity. And it will be a critical stepping stone for those that go on to become Jewish community leaders, both here in the UK and also in Israel.

But, historically, 1 in 5 simply cannot afford to participate and have only been able to do so with a UJIA means-tested bursary. UJIA’s guiding principle is that no young person should be deprived of the opportunity to join Tour due to their family’s financial circumstances and this year UJIA expects to distribute around £300,000 in bursaries. 

With your support, UJIA will be able to reach this target. Will you please join me in supporting UJIA and helping to ensure that no young person gets left behind?
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Marc Lester
 
As you may know, I have been involved with UJIA for several years now. The organisation is involved in many strands of our Jewish Life. Part of the reason I am involved revolves around Israel Tour which was really the start of my Jewish life.. both from an education and social point of view – most of my closest friends I met on Tour!

Israel Tour 2022 has just launched after an interruption of 2 years and we are doing what we can to ensure every young person that wants to go on tour has the option to… it is a right of passage after all!!

We have launched a UJIA Tour Bursary fundraising campaign to ensure the cost of going on Tour is not a barrier for anyone - 1 in 5 tour participants receive financial assistance so they can go on Tour.

The Crowdfunding Campaign is taking place today and tomorrow to raise fund to ensure this.

Tour is often the first introduction to the community and the start of our social journey (and is the reason I am a UJIA trustee I guess!) and we are trying to raise as much money to ensure all 16 years olds can share the experiences we all did…
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This summer, for the first time since 2019, Israel Tour is back. After what will be three years, we are finally in a position to take our community’s 16 and 17 year olds on one of the most important, seminal rites of passage for any Jewish teenager. 

Last September, UJIA launched ‘The Journey Home’ campaign. The aim was simple and ambitious. As restrictions on travel loosened and the world opened up once more, we committed to take 10,000 teenagers and young adults on an organised trip to Israel within three years. 

This July and August will see over 1,300 young people take part in Israel Tour. However, as we come out of the pandemic and into a cost-of-living crisis, we are faced with a new challenge. Affordability. To address this we have launched an enhanced UJIA Israel Tour Bursary Fund. It is our aim that no young person should miss the opportunity of Israel Tour due to their family's financial circumstances. We must raise an additional £1m over the next three years and we need £300,000 to cover the requirement for this summer alone. 

UJIA works tirelessly so that all the young people in our community get to Israel - on the Journey Home. We are the people responsible for supporting the youth movements, training the trip’s leaders how to educate about Israel and how to keep our children safe, solving the multitude of logistical problems and responding to any crisis on the ground. 

We know how important an organised trip to Israel is to both the Jewish identity and connection to Israel of young people. We know that without such a trip, the connection weakens and with it, Jewish identity too. In 2019, 68% of participants felt that Israel Tour strengthened their existing connection to Israel, rising to 89% for those who were visiting Israel for the first time. 

These trips make a difference and UJIA is behind that difference. At a time when Jewish students are being challenged regarding Israel and its place in their Jewish identity as never before, the long-term benefits of an organised visit to Israel become even more significant. If we want our young people to have the confidence to be proud of their relationship with Israel we need to make sure they spend meaningful time there. 

The typical grant for Israel Tour is £1,100 and on average we have provided bursaries to 1-in-5 participants over the past 10 years. 

We can’t thank you enough for your support and ensuring our community’s teenagers can go on the Journey Home.