Israel Engagement Fellowship

About the Israel Engagement Fellowship

Exploring, Experiencing, and Enacting Your Israel 

The Israel Engagement Fellowship serves Jewish high school students who are eager for intensive, hands-on learning and engagement with Israel. This program serves a diverse population of learners whose relationship to and experiences with/in Israel vary greatly. In serving this diverse target audience, the program provides content-rich experiences to explore Israel – its land, people, culture, and values – and foster their own personal relationship to Israel. 

The Israel Engagement Fellowship works to support Jewish high school students in the Greater Indianapolis area by connecting them with Israel in an authentic way, and learning how to engage with and advocate for Israel in a way that makes sense for them. Participants in the fellowship benefit from a space to ask tough questions, challenge each other, and learn relational advocacy concepts and resources from dynamic speakers. 

Israel Engagement fellows walk away from the program with an imperative to appreciate and act according to the understanding that Israel and Diaspora Jewry are inter-connected, and that their generation will have joint responsibility for ensuring a vital Jewish future. 

We are no longer taking applications for the 2022-2023 Israel Engagement Fellowship. We look forward to the 2023-2024 cohort! 

During my time in the Israel Engagement Fellowship, I have learned about Israel’s past, its government, and its culture alongside fellow Jewish teens. This program has helped me build a stronger connection with not only Israel, but my fellow members as well.
Madison

IEF Fellow 2020

This program has been more than informative. Every week we all meet together and we’re led in a discussion about different events in Israel. We have learned more than just history but also politics, how to analyze the reliability of news sources and even how antisemitism and anti-Zionism affect us every day.
Josh

IEF Fellow 2020

I have found joy participating in the Israel Engagement Fellowship. This has been an amazing experience with an intriguing syllabus where I learned during each and every session. The topic I chose to research for the final project was the divine Israeli food culture that I had the honor of experiencing while in Israel.
Brad

IEF Fellow 2020