An Explanation of the Tel Aviv+ Model

During your 10-month Israel experience, half your time will be spent living in Tel Aviv-Yafo. You’ll be working in the southern part of the city within a lower socioeconomic school with a large migrant population. Your other five months will be spent in one of Israel’s peripheral cities including Beit Shean, NazarethKiryat Gat, and Rahat. The order of placement between Tel Aviv and one of the four peripheral cities is subject to the organizer’s decision only. By this dual-city track, you’ll have the opportunity to experience unique and different Israeli lifestyles, while making a huge difference in the country’s society.

Tel Aviv: Israel’s City that Never Sleeps is a vibrant location with a fascinating culture, stunning beaches, beautiful sunsets, and lively nightlife.ֲ  Boasting hip eateries, a vibrant arts scene, and a booming nightlife, this laid-back beach town might make you feel like your interning in paradise but Tel Aviv’s appeal is more than just superficial. This sophisticated, global city offers an abundance of history and culture and is rapidly becoming a major player in the contemporary art scene. With world-class museums, theaters, galleries, and orchestras, Tel Aviv is a strong choice for culture lovers. Tel Aviv-Yafo is home to an ethnically diverse community, housing subgroups including secular and religious Jews, Arabs, foreign workers, and asylum seekers.ֲ  The city hosts many of the country’s most popular concerts, festivals, sports competitions, and holiday celebrations. You’ll have no trouble finding fun things to do in this city, making lifelong friends from Israel and abroad along the way!

Rahat:

Fellows live in Be’er Sheva and teach in Rahat, the first and the largest Bedouin city in the world! Only 15 minutes from Be’er Sheva and founded in the late 1970s, it is populated by more than 45 Bedouin tribes from the Negev Region. Known as “the city of children” with roughly 60% of its population under the age of 18, Rahat and the surrounding Bedouin villages are going through a period of change and modernization as the new generation considers what it means to be Bedouin in the 21st century. While Rahat is a modern city boasting a Bedouin market, a bustling commercial center with restaurants and businesses, and many mosques, it still retains a uniquely Bedouin feel. Camel sightings in the city center, sheep herders and their flocks and the occasional Bedouin tent are a common sight. Just 15 minutes from Be’er Sheva, the capital of the Negev, and 45 minutes by train from Tel Aviv, Rahat is located at the beginning of the Negev Desert with stunning nature and scenery surrounding it. Rahat is a culturally unique city with a warm and inviting community famous for their hospitality.

Meet a fellow

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Rebecca Herz

Teach English
MITF helped me to refine my teaching skills, learn Hebrew, and become immersed in Israeli society. It was the launch pad to my...
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Sara Brownstein

Teach English
Being apart of MASA was one of the best experiences of my life. You get to experinece the amazing country of israel while...
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Jamie Lopata

Teach English
MITF overwhelmingly exceeded all my expectations. It made me feel at home in Israel with people I’ll stay friends with forever.
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Daniel Sieden

Teach English
One of the best things I have ever done in my life
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Rebecca Herz

Teach English
MITF helped me to refine my teaching skills, learn Hebrew, and become immersed in Israeli society. It was the launch pad to my...
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Sara Brownstein

Teach English
Being apart of MASA was one of the best experiences of my life. You get to experinece the amazing country of israel while...
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Jamie Lopata

Teach English
MITF overwhelmingly exceeded all my expectations. It made me feel at home in Israel with people I’ll stay friends with forever.
Usa flag

Daniel Sieden

Teach English
One of the best things I have ever done in my life
Usa flag

Rebecca Herz

Teach English
MITF helped me to refine my teaching skills, learn Hebrew, and become immersed in Israeli society. It was the launch pad to my...
Usa flag

Sara Brownstein

Teach English
Being apart of MASA was one of the best experiences of my life. You get to experinece the amazing country of israel while...
Usa flag

Jamie Lopata

Teach English
MITF overwhelmingly exceeded all my expectations. It made me feel at home in Israel with people I’ll stay friends with forever.
Usa flag

Daniel Sieden

Teach English
One of the best things I have ever done in my life
Usa flag

Rebecca Herz

Teach English
MITF helped me to refine my teaching skills, learn Hebrew, and become immersed in Israeli society. It was the launch pad to my...
Usa flag

Sara Brownstein

Teach English
Being apart of MASA was one of the best experiences of my life. You get to experinece the amazing country of israel while...
Usa flag

Jamie Lopata

Teach English
MITF overwhelmingly exceeded all my expectations. It made me feel at home in Israel with people I’ll stay friends with forever.
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Daniel Sieden

Teach English
One of the best things I have ever done in my life
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Josephine Azoulay

Internship
I had the best 6 months of my life! Thank you Masa!
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Rebecca Herz

Teach English
MITF helped me to refine my teaching skills, learn Hebrew, and become immersed in Israeli society. It was the launch pad to my...
Usa flag

Sara Brownstein

Teach English
Being apart of MASA was one of the best experiences of my life. You get to experinece the amazing country of israel while...
Usa flag

Jamie Lopata

Teach English
MITF overwhelmingly exceeded all my expectations. It made me feel at home in Israel with people I’ll stay friends with forever.
Usa flag

Daniel Sieden

Teach English
One of the best things I have ever done in my life

In the classroom

Masa Israel Teaching Fellows in Rahat work at the forefront of Arab-Jewish coexistence within the Arab sector of the Israeli school system. Schools in Rahat are large, warm, and colorful, staffed with Bedouin and Jewish teachers. Fellows assist English teachers and work to bring enthusiasm for the English language and cross cultural exchange to the entire school community. Fellows use their own talents and hobbies to make the language more fun and accessible to students as part of an effort to bring about equality of educational opportunities in the Bedouin community.

Where you’ll live

Fellows who volunteer in Rahat will live just 15 minutes away in the vibrant and mixed city of Be’er Sheva. : There, fellows will connect with Israeli peers who are living and working in the surrounding area through BINA and A New Dawn’s different projects, while also being part of the vibrant cultural life among Be’er Sheva’s large student population. Fellows will take the public bus, just steps from their student style apartment, each morning to Rahat. Coexistence will not be a buzzword, but a part of everyday life for the Fellows, who will act as a “bridge” between the two cities and bring both populations closer together.

About the Provider

Masa Israel Teaching Fellows in Rahat is organized by BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change and the Bedouin-Jewish non-profit A New Dawn in the Negev. BINA operates a broad range of programming for Jewish young adults from around the world based on social activism and pluralistic Jewish learning. A New Dawn in the Negev works toward bringing greater educational opportunities to Bedouin youth while connecting them with the greater Israeli society and the international community.

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