Member of Israel Outdoors Team Joins Knesset

Israel Outdoors would like to congratulate General Elazar Stern on his recent election to the Knesset – Israel’s parliament.  Elazar Stern is a member of our Board of Directors and is actively involved in program education for Israel Outdoors. Elazar began his IDF career as a paratrooper, rising to the rank of General in charge…

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New York City…Meet Amit

We love highlighting our rockstar North American peer staff members whenever possible. In the case of Amit Shuker, one of our “veteran” staffers who has led over six Israel Outdoors Birthright trips, Rutgers University Business School took care of that for us when they put his smiling face on a billboard in NYC recently. Mazel…

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Lost Luggage? No Problem!

We just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share this post from Levi Strauss & Co’s official corporate blog, featuring Israel Outdoors alumnus Will Roman and his unfortunate luggage fiasco. Disclaimer: while this certainly makes for a humorous post, we wish to point out that luggage issues and delays are extremely rare. 😀 We love…

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Israel Outdoors Alumna on Upcoming Season of CBS’ “Survivor”

Roberta “RC” Saint-Amour, who survived (and enjoyed!) her Summer 2010 Taglit-Birthright Israel trip with Israel Outdoors, is about to make her television debut as a contestant on the CBS hit reality series “Survivor”. The show, entering its 25th season, will take place in the Philippines, and premieres on Wednesday, September 19th on CBS. Best of…

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Israel Outdoors Participant Meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres

H/T to TL-26-524 participant Arielle Zuckerberg (where have I heard that name before?) who met with Israeli President Shimon Peres while on her Taglit-Birthright Israel trip with Israel Outdoors this summer. As if meeting the beloved President (and former Prime Minister) wasn’t cool enough, Arielle learned on her trip that her social media marketing company…

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