Tuesday was a huge all day MASA campus activism seminar at Binyanei Ha’uma. I lost count of how many times we were called “young ambassadors for Israel”. For the most part the speakers were engaging and interesting and talked about everything from branding Israel to the stereotypes about our generation. The only topic they didn’t seem to really mention was HOW we should combat anti-Israel sentiment on campus. It’s like an army general telling his troops the enemy is waiting at the other side of the mountain and that’s it. No strategy, no words of wisdom.
Anyway, the highlight of the whole day, and the reason why most Year Coursers actually stayed was the closing ceremony at which Natan Sharansky and Benjamin Netanyahu both spoke. Of course this serious assembly quickly fell apart into a teenage mob once Hadag Nachash took the stage.
MASA is a fairly young organization but has been enormously successful in helping gap year and post grad programs bring young adults to Israel.
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