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ADL University Missions
Campus Leadership Mission
June 8-17, 2009
ADL's Campus Leadership Mission provides future leaders with a first hand perspective of Israel by meeting with the culturally diverse population, engaging with its vibrant society, learning about the strategic and social challenges facing Israel today, and touring the historically and geographically significant land.
Eligibility: Qualified applicants must be college freshmen, sophomores, or juniors who are leaders on their college/university campus through political involvement, student activism, and/or editors of the campus newspaper. Students must have an excellent academic record, an inquisitive mind and be interested in learning about Israel and the issues it faces in the Middle East. Students who have previously visited Israel are not eligible. Fifteen students from around the country will be selected to participate.
Prior to the trip: Students will be given reading materials and participate in conference calls to discuss the history, current realities, the people of Israel and the issues facing this area of the global community. Students will be expected to read through these materials to ensure that they are fully prepared for the mission.
In Israel: Mission participants will meet with decision-makers, government and military officials, diplomats, journalists, students, and ordinary Israelis, Arab and Jewish, from diverse communities, cultures and backgrounds. Participants will visit key places of historical, religious and contemporary interest. The group will avoid any and all areas that we are advised may involve potential danger at that time. Travel will be on our own private bus. Participants will engage in a considerable amount of walking and some wilderness hiking that may be physically challenging.
In New York: Before heading to Israel, participants will have an orientation program in New York on June 8-9th where participants will meet with senior members of the ADL staff.
Quotes from past participants in the ADL Campus Editors Mission to Poland and Israel:
“ADL’s Mission helps me put the news I cover every day into perspective.”
-Columbia University
“Not a day goes by that I haven’t thought about the trip. That week and a half was a defining experience in my life.”
-Georgetown University
“The Mission has been the highlight of my college experience. It has opened my eyes to so much- especially after realizing that there is so much beauty in humanity even amidst the greatest conflicts.”
-Junior, Colgate University
“The ADL trip remains one of the best experiences of my college years. I have no doubt that it will have a big impact on my future career.”
-Dartmouth University
“The experience shed a bright light on my understanding of the history of the Jewish people across the Diaspora and gave me a clearer understanding of the issues that plague the peace process in the Middle East.”
-Howard University
“With the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, I have flipped through my photograph albums from the trip several times and thought about how much has changed.”
-Harvard University
“The individual investment in student leaders is so important. Not just today, but through the rest of my life I will use the experience and knowledge acquired on ADL's Leadership Mission to ensure that a solution is found in the Middle East.”
-Junior, Yale University
“I am very impressed with the professionalism of the mission as well as the high level of speakers which addressed our group. I feel much more educated by going and seeing the places in which I learned about in the United States.”
-Senior, Smith College
“By meeting various journalists, lecturers, diplomats, and distinguished individuals, I was able to gain a first hand perspective on the current state of Israel; one that consists of more questions than answers, more heroic people than villains, and more love than despair.”
-Sophomore, University of California Santa Cruz
“As a devout Catholic, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was my favorite stop. The way in which Christians, Muslims, and Jews come together to commemorate the final stages of Christ's Via Delorosa was especially poignant to me.”
-Sophomore, Boston College
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