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Israel Experience®
Founded in 1999

Israel Experience® (www.israelexperience.org) is an educational arm of The Jewish Agency,
specializing in providing organized trips to Israel for teens, university students and adults from all
over the globe. Israel Experience® is one of Israel's leading incoming tourism, both in terms of sales
and in terms of nights it provided accommodation – in 2016, the total number of nights was more
than a million. The company organizes programs from some 50 countries and hundreds of Jewish
communities in all its segments. In recent years, around 30,000 people a year participate in
company programs. The company's educational programs are built together with local educators
of the community. Israel Experience is one of the two major organizers of Birthright and is a very
large organizer of Masa programs.

The company's Long-term Program Division is divided into four. Among the programs in its
English-speaking section, with a total number of participants of 1500, are Career Israel, Onward,
Israel by Design, MITF, Magen David Adom and Marva. In addition, Israel Expereince launched a
new program in 2016: a Pre-Med program together with the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital. The
Russian-speaking section runs six long-term programs involving 550 participants, and includes a
medical program that has been responsible for bringing more than 500 doctors from the FSU in the
last 10 years. In the European section, there are 500 participants a year in the various programs.
A very successful program of the Latin American section is a two-month program for young
entrepreneurs, which is run together with Onward Israel, Hillel Latin America and Maccabi Olami. It
started in 2013 with 30 participants and now has 150 participants.

The company's short-term programs from English-speaking countries involve some 3,500
participants a year, from synagogues, schools, youth movements, Birthright, student groups,
volunteering and leadership groups, teachers missions, etc. Israel Experience is the sole provider of
Taglit-Birthright Israel in Great Britain. The company has opened a representative office in the US in
order to better meet the needs of the various clients and to help the company grow.

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