Taglit-Birthright Israel

Overview

As of the end of 2007 more than 120,000 young Jewish adults from North America received the gift of a trip to Israel. The sponsor, Taglit-Birthright Israel, developed this ten-day educational program for those young adults who had not been to Israel on a prior educational program, but who identify themselves as Jews. This large-scale experiment was conceived with the hope that engagement with Israel would strengthen participants’ Jewish identities and counter the threat to Jewish continuity posed by assimilation.