The Department of Jewish-Zionist Education- The Jewish Agency
Alan Hoffmann, Director General
Hasia Israeli, Deputy Director

Project Supervision:
Ilan Wagner, Director of Student Affairs
Dr. Ami Bouganim, Director of Research and Development Unit

Original idea and inspiration: Yitzhak Devash
Vision and Covenant Anthology Editor: Tzion Meital
Vision and Covenant Anthology Project Coordinator: Mariana Kronfeld

Steering Committee:
Ilan Wagner, Department of Jewish-Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency, Chairman
Dr. Ami Bouganim, Department of Jewish-Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency
Arianna Boeken-Rubin, Department of Jewish-Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency
Yitzhak Devash
Wayne Firestone, Director Campus Israel Affairs Department, Hillel International
Andy Faeur, Hagshama Department, WZO
Aryeh Haskin, The Zionist Council
Yair Kanai, Department of Jewish-Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency
Mariana Kronfeld, Department of Jewish-Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency
Professor Hagit Lavsky, Hebrew University
Tzion Meital
Peleg Reshef, Chairman WUJS

The Jewish Agency

The Jewish Agency is a global Jewish institution operating worldwide, offering public services to all Jews in the areas of Aliya, Jewish education and culture. It is an effective environment for Jews from all over the world to interact, cooperate on shared projects and initiatives, exchange experiences and influence one another. The focal center of the Agency’s work is in Israel, with representatives in hundreds of locations in Israel and in more than sixty countries around the world. In this way, the Jewish Agency plays a key role in maintaining links between Jewish institutions and Jewish individuals in the Diaspora with the Jewish State. The major goals of the Jewish Agency today are Aliya, deepening Jewish identity in the Diaspora and strengthening ties with the State of Israel. As a result of its activities the Agency plays a role in reinforcing Jewish solidarity and unity throughout the world.

The Department of Jewish-Zionist Education

The mission of the Department of Jewish-Zionist Education of the Jewish Agency is to intensify the central and multi-faceted significance of ‘Israel’ in connecting the next generation of Jews to their heritage, People and Homeland. By Israel we mean many things: the spiritual and emotional core of Judaism; the focal axis of the Zionist vision; the Jewish homeland; the modern independent nation; the renewed creative center for Jewish culture and the Hebrew language; and the source of collective memory shared by the Jewish people throughout the world.

The Department of Jewish-Zionist Education concentrates on the following arenas of activity: The Jewish experience of Israel for educators, youth and students; training educational personnel to work in the Diaspora; constructing an educational-technological bridge between Israel and the Diaspora; and developing Israel oriented educational activities in partnership with local communities and institutions.