Trips and Seminars

On Career Israel you will not only have a professional internship, but you will learn about, experience, and travel around Israel on fascinating tours and seminars.

Sample 5 Month Internship Program Itinerary (Sept 2010)

* This is a tentative itinerary and subject to change.

September 1-5: Orientation Seminar in Jerusalem:

September 6- October 5: Ulpan (Tel Aviv):

9:30-14:40: Ulpan + afternoon/evening activities 3 times per week

Ulpan afternoon activities:

6/9         Dude where's Leni? Know your way around Tel Aviv 

7/9         Its Holydays seasons?!! Holiday workshop

8-11/9     Rosh Hashana with family or host families arranged through the program (you must inform CI staff if you are interested in this option)

12/9       Lights! Camera! Israel!!  Israeli Film Seminar

13/9       Israel's Political Arena

14/9       Aliens or a minority? Being an Israeli Arab           

15/9       afternoon volunteering (More details to come)* 

16/9       afternoon volunteering (More details to come)*

17-18/9 YOM KIPPUR with family or host families arranged through the program

19/9      Sukkot workshop

20/9      A Tour of "Better Place" *:  an Israeli hi-tech company that aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a market-based transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles.

-Or-       A Visit to "Hot Line center for Migrant workers" *: A non-partisan, non-profit organization, dedicated to promoting the rights of undocumented migrant workers and refugees and eliminating trafficking in persons in Israel.

21/9       A Visit to "Given Imaging " *: an Israeli high-tech company that pioneered  capsule endoscopy, developing and marketing patient-friendly solutions for visualizing and detecting disorders of the GI tract.

22-25/9  SUKKOT HOLIDAY

26/9      Tour of Yafo + Dinner at Dr. Shakshuka

27/9      Internship prep session

             Cultural gaps in the work place

             Cultural gaps in the work place

28/9       Beta Israel - Bringing Ethiopian Jewry to Israel

29/9       HOSHA'NA RABA

30/9-2/10 SIMCHAT TORAH

3/10       Tour of Zichron Yaakov and Binyamina winery

4/10       Jerusalem participants move to apartments

October 5-8: Trip to the Galilee and Golan

10/10      Begin Internships

21/10      Sderot and Gaza seminar (Day Trip)

25/10      Optional - MASA opening event + Idan Reichel concert

5-6/11        Dialogue Seminar – OvernightTrip  in Ein Gedi

5-6/11        Optional -  MASA "Security Issues" weekend seminar

18/11          Religion and State seminar (Day Trip)

2/12             Haifa Trip (Day Trip)

10-11/12      Optional – MASA "Israeli society" weekend seminar

19-21 /12        Negev trip - Overnight in Sde Boker

29/12              Optional – MASA IDF day with IDF spokesman

30/12              Optional Aliyah Seminar*

6/1/11             Optional Visit to Yad Vashem* (Day Trip)

6/1                  Optional – MASA Aliyah evening program

20-21/1            Ending seminar - Overnight Trip

25/1                Program end and checkout

* Pre-registration required – limited places.