Winter trips begin!
Over the next four months, 17,000 participants from 32 countries will experience Israel. Read more.

This week (January 22-27) we welcome:
800 participants from Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine and USA on 40 buses.

 
Summer 2012 REGISTRATION
Registration for Summer 2012 trips open for Americans and Canadians on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 am ET. If you applied in the past, you will have access to early registration on February 14, 2012 at noon ET. You must log in with the user name (email) and password you previously registered under. To find information on registering from other countries, click here.

If you are a Winter 2011/2012 applicant and have already begun an application for this winter and need to update, complete, or make changes to your information click here.

 
Birthright Israel Excel: Apply Now!
Elite Fellowship Program for Business-Oriented Students

A high-level business fellowship/internship program for this summer. Selected candidates who meet the program's qualifications will be placed at Israel’s top global companies for a 10-week fellowship.

If you are interested in learning more about this program, visit www.BirthrightIsraelExcel.com.

The application for the 2012 Birthright Israel Excel Fellowship is now available and will remain open until February 26, 2012. Click here to apply.

In Fashion

A special Taglit-Birthright Israel group with American and Israeli participants studying or working in the fashion and marketing industries, got an up-close look at fashion in Israel. Touring fashion schools, galleries and learning weaving techniques in an Arab village, the participants were also tasked with a project: to create a unique head piece. Read more (PDF)!


Youngest US State Legislator Joins a Birthright Israel trip
Kesha Ram, 25, a second term Democrat representing a Burlington district at the Vermont State Legislature and the youngest state legislator in the nation, just returned home from a Birthright Israel trip.

Read more.
Taglit-Birthright Israel provides the gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26 in order to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish people. More