DREAMERS Hugging & Wrestling with Israel Israel Trip | July 3–7, 2016

The Program Participants "A hybrid between a “youth movement seminar for adults” and a high-powered “alternative mission” Our goal is to recruit 100 participants aged

40-60 for summer 2016: leaders in their The program will seek to:  spur participants’ critical and in-depth exploration fields, professions and communities of contemporary Israel  catalyze well-informed action by participants in We will focus on graduates of youth their spheres of influence movements/summer camps in English- speaking countries, the Jewish Student Sessions will include: Movement and Israel “immersion”  conversations with high profile personalities experiences.  field learning with dynamic and highly skilled educators, artists, experts and activists Makom will partner with organizations who 7 share its vision The structure and content will be developed:  based on the success of the 2015 pilot  with the leadership of a Steering Group  with the creativity and experience of Makom, the educational designer

Program Content The topics to be explored will be wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach - covering politics, economics, society, culture, business, literature, film, science, technology, etc.

Special care will be taken to present a broad range of narratives and encourage in-depth consideration of the issues.

The program will use a menu-based structure:  core sessions: participants with primary “bonding” group  plenary sessions: all participants together About Makom  elective sessions: study and activity around topics of interest Makom creates content and educates leaders to embrace  “reunion” session running parallel for each youth the vibrant complexity of Israel: The People, the Place, and movement/camp together with graduates living in Israel the Promise. We fuel Jewish hope with our signature pedagogy of "Hugging and Wrestling". Our expert team works to empower educators and activists to ask tough questions, articulate enthralling visions, and to craft honest, Steering Group engaging programs.

comprising leaders in their fields who will shape and Makom has developed 1000 educational units, and delivered direct the program and help to gather participants seminars for 15,000 educators and leaders. Makom is the Advisory Panel Education Lab of The Jewish Agency will support the Steering Group with advice, ideas and introductions

For more information contact Elisheva: [email protected] DREAMERS Hugging & Wrestling with Israel Israel Trip | July 3–7, 2016 2015 Pilot Program Highlights Politics, Peace and Security  Meet Yuval Diskin (former Head of the Shin Bet and interviewee in The Gatekeepers) on Israeli security  The Separation Barrier with Colonel (Res.) Ron Shatzberg (key negotiator on future borders for Israel/Palestine,) including meeting with Dani Dayan (former Chair, Yesha Council of West Bank Settlements)  Tour of West Bank, including: o Rawabi with Bashar al-Masri (Palestinian YPO Chair) o Ramallah with Dr. Nabil Shaath (head, Palestinian Foreign Relations)  Likud Cabinet Minister Danny Danon (Israel's incoming Ambassador to UN)  In-depth briefing on Syria and ISIS with Col. (Res.) Miri Eisen (former advisor on peace negotiations to PM Olmert and Special Envoy Tony Blair)

Law, Religion and Society  Discussions with Natan Sharansky (Chair of Jewish Agency), Professor Gidi Shimoni and Rabbi Yehoshua Engelman  Shiur at Alma College with Ruth Calderon (former MK, Yesh Atid, and founder of Israel’s first secular Beit Midrash)  Meeting at the Supreme Court with President Asher Grunis, former Chief Justice  Tour of Kinneret Cemetry with leading historian and philosopher Muki Tzur  Session on social justice with activists Didi Mymin (African Refugee Development Center in Tel Aviv) and Leora Kessel (Hachatzer Hanashit)

Business, Science and Technology  Business Leaders Roundtable, including senior partners/officers from FIMI, Teva, Our Crowd, Glilot Capital, Vintage, Henry Schein  Session on Innovation - Profiles of Cutting Edge Companies by CEOs of Futuragene and Realview Imaging

Literature, Film & Culture  Yossi Klein Halevi (author Like Dreamers, Senior Fellow Hartman Institute)  Museum on the Seam with Rachel Korazim (renowned educator) using poetry to examine roles of Jew and Arab in Israeli Society  Dinner with leading Israeli author Etgar Keret  Tel Aviv Architecture and Identity Tour  Leading filmmakers dialogue at Tel Aviv University Film School