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Participants in the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program, July 2025 (Alexander Muss High School in Israel)
August 17, 2025, 5:31 pm
As yet another wartime summer affects travel to Israel, Jewish youth programs are pivoting
Visits to the Holy Land can be a formative experience for Diaspora Jews, but constant travel impediments in the turbulent region force trip leaders to innovate – or go elsewhere
By Zev Stub
Hadash-Ta'al MK Ofer Cassif, left, argues with Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky, right, at a Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 19, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 19, 2023, 3:07 pm
‘Go rape another one,’ ‘worthless terror supporter’: MKs trade barbs at Knesset
Coalition lawmakers threaten to act against youth village for hosting Israeli-Palestinian group’s summer camp, with one of them verbally clashing with Hadash-Ta’al MK
By ToI Staff
Participants at 'Camp Hallelujah' on Israel's coast, August 12, 2022. (Courtesy/Camp Hallelujah)
August 20, 2022, 10:06 am
Ukraine refugees, Israel youth shaken by war find relief at ‘Hallelujah’ summer camp
On Israel’s coast, international gathering gives teenagers from abroad and Gaza border communities a sense of normalcy; ‘When you live with war all the time, you want peace’
By Jacob Rivkin
Counselors for Piece of the Puzzle, one of the 20 overnight camps taking place across Israel during July-August 2021 as part of Summer Camps Israel (Courtesy Summer Camps Israel)
June 30, 2021, 11:19 am
Israeli schools are out for the summer, time for sleepaway camp
9,000 Israeli schoolkids get to have the overnight experience at Summer Camps Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
One of the activities held during the year for Latet teens, a non-profit organization that will hold a sleepaway experience in July 2020, with help from the Summer Camps Israel forum (Courtesy Latet)
June 13, 2020, 12:30 pm
Pack a duffel, there are sleepaway camps for Israeli kids this summer
Summer Camps Israel gathers a forum of 30 camps and youth organizations in order to create better summertime options
By Jessica Steinberg
Campers at Camp Sunrise, August 9, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
August 26, 2018, 1:49 pm
At Jewish-Arab summer camp, children declare color war on cancer
Rather than offering a Make-a-Wish type of experience, staff at Sunrise seeks to give patients and their siblings opportunity to just be kids
By Jacob Magid and Video by Luke Tress
Alex Pomson
February 21, 2018, 2:21 pm
Alex Pomson
US teens are getting woke about Israel
All that talk about American Jews’ apathy for the Jewish state, and it’s what’s hooking the youth
Beth Steinberg
July 10, 2016, 2:19 pm
Beth Steinberg
Having fun yet?
The ideal summer camp: arts & crafts, trees to climb, pool, gym, fire-pit, handicapped-access, and government funding
Illustrative photo of firefighters extinguishing a forest fire, April 25, 2016. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
July 8, 2016, 12:35 am
Northern forest fire forces summer camp evacuation
Firefighters aided by planes work to control spreading blaze near Haifa; 3,000 displaced campers are safe
By ToI Staff
Young students at Camp Havaya (photo credit: JTA)
August 6, 2012, 12:24 am
American-Jewish summer camps make aliya
New generation of Israeli sleepaway camps builds Jewish identity in the holy land
By Ben Sales
Tech-Know-Play campers work on a bridge engineering project (Photo credit: courtesy)
June 19, 2012, 12:18 pm
Jerusalem ‘geek’ summer camp gives kids a leg up in hard sciences
Tech-Know-Play is all about building bridges and designing robots – as well as helping kids develop more confidence
By David Shamah
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