MASA Israel Journey recently launched ‘Go Green in Israel,’
an initiative to highlight opportunities for young adults in North America to study, intern or volunteer in the “green” or environmental sector in the Jewish state.
MASA offers programs ranging from environmental studies at Ben-Gurion University and the Arava Institute, to internships at renewable energy startups, to volunteering on an eco-farm. MASA launched a microsite for these programs at www.gogreeninisrael.org.
To increase awareness of these opportunities, MASA partnered with Hazon, America’s largest Jewish environmental nonprofit organization, launching the Jewish Climate Change Campaign and Bus Tour at the United Nations on October 23.
The bus, which was formally sent off by Janos Pasztor, head of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Change Support Team, is run entirely on bio-diesel fuels and loaded with seedlings to be planted by children in Jewish communities around the country.
MASA and Hazon staff traveled cross-country on the bus, making stops to promote MASA programs in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta, New Orleans, Texas, Arizona, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Monterey, California.
“Israel is a world leader in innovation in fields like sustainable development, water conservation, and renewable energy, and a great place for young adults from North America to prepare for cutting-edge careers in the green sector, while also connecting to their Jewish roots,” says Avi Rubel, North American director of MASA Israel Journey.
MASA is a joint project of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli government and was founded in 2004 under former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
to encourage Jewish young adults ages 18-30 to study, intern or volunteer for a semester to a year in Israel.
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