Student Leadership

A program that encourages higher education as a primary key to social mobility along with engagement in social and community activities. The program shapes identity and social consciousness, and fosters The next generation of leadership, while connecting to Jewish sources, with an emphasis on the tradition of Spanish Jews. Students receive a scholarship and participate in a study group and leadership workshops, Along with support in acquiring an academic degree, and preparation for the world of employment.

In the planted track, local students are selected, from the periphery, the Negev and the Galilee, the builders The place where they grew up is the center of their lives. In this path, they create a local social network and experience social-community entrepreneurship. In the Ida Scholarship Program track, selected Students from neighborhoods and graduates of youth villages, who return to the schools where they studied, and serve as Teaching reinforcements, and role models for school students.

Student Leadership – Outcome Measures:

• Students successfully complete their studies upon completion of their participation in the program.
• Students report a sense of belonging to the place where they grew up, a connection to Jewish origins, and a sense of competence and motivation for social and community activity.
• Community partners, youth center directors and school principals where the students work, will largely report the importance and usefulness of social and community activities.