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Finding My Community in Israel
Meet Michael Duke, one of our inspiring participants on MITF (Masa Israel Teaching Fellows), and learn about the journey he … […]
Why Teach English in Israel?
Why Teach English in Israel? Looking to do something meaningful AND strengthen your career? There are many reasons to teach … […]
Toda! Khop Chai! Shukran habibi!
OY. I’m back in the States now after my two years living, teaching, learning, and volunteering in Laos and Israel. … […]
Why Do a Gap Year in Israel?
Why Do a Gap Year in Israel? High school is coming to an end, and you’re ready to take the … […]
Rahat Superheroes!
My name is Emily and I am teaching English in Rahat, a Bedouin city in the northern Negev desert through … […]
What is MITF Tel Aviv+ (Video)
What is MITF Tel Aviv+? Learn how you can teach English in Israel for 10 months and GET PAID! Learn … […]
Learning from the Children I Teach
A common conception about three-year-olds is that they have a tendency to be ‘difficult’. After volunteering with 20 kids of … […]
Shopping lists with Drora
It’s Sunday morning and I am sitting at the the kitchen table at the Mechina with a hot mug of … […]
What is BINA Gap Year? (Video)
BINA Gap Year: What makes us different from all other gap years? Listen to the participants of BINA Gap Year … […]
What it’s like to volunteer in a south Tel Aviv pre school
Walking into my Gan (preschool in Hebrew) on the first day of volunteering went quite differently than I thought it … […]
Gapsgiving
Being in a foreign county during Thanksgiving was not an easy experience. For us living in on the East Coast, … […]
Good Deeds Day
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task. -Sophocles It is hard to remember the first time one … […]
In search of the next big thing
Originally Published in Jewish Rhode Island. The plane ride to Israel tells you almost everything. You don’t even need to … […]
What is BINA (Video)
What is BINA all about? Meet the students and teachers at BINA's Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv! Subscribe to our … […]
Finding My Spark – From Roanoke to Israel
Originally Published in the Roanoke Times. When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2015, I wasn’t full of joy, … […]
Making a Positive Impact on MITF Rahat (Video)
Shaina is a BINA Masa Israel Teaching Fellow in the Bedouin village of Rahat. Hear how through teaching English she … […]
A Tale of Two Languages
By Oded Bar-Meir First published Hebrew in Yedioth HaNegev, March 2016 “Some would say that is sounds like a post-apocalyptic … […]