2024 Spring Student Exchange: Information Session

Each year, the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor provides an opportunity for local 9th graders to spend their spring break on a ten-day visit in Israel. Their home base is Moshav Nahalal, where they are hosted in the homes of Israeli teens and their families.  Participants spend the week learning about daily life in this historic and vital community, experiencing Israeli high school classes, touring the Central Galilee region, exploring Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and creating lasting and meaningful relationships with their new Israeli friends.

The following fall, the participants have the opportunity to reciprocate the hospitality when their new Nahalal friends visit Ann Arbor. Interacting with their Israeli friends on home base helping them to learn about our community, spend time together, and experience the different lifestyle of Jewish teens in North America.

Since 2010, the Ann Arbor-Nahalal Student Exchange program has brought over 130 local students to Ann Arbor’s Partnership community in Israel, Moshav Nahalal.

The dates for the 2024 trip are 3.21.24 – 3.31.24
It is open to 9th graders in the Greater Jewish Ann Arbor area.