This month, KKL-JNF will conduct seminars for educators from all over the world, who come to Israel to learn of its activities and its contribution to the struggle against the climate crisis. Approximately 300 teachers and headmasters will participate in educational tours and a large variety of seminars related to KKL-JNF's 120 years of Zionist activity. The participants come from Australia, Britain, The United States, France, Lithuania, as well as Russia and Ukraine, among others.
The Seminar Program has been held for over 20 years, and now, after a two-year break due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it will reopen. The participants will learn about the connection between the struggle against the climate crisis and Zionism and about the Israeli water industry and its connection to KKL-JNF. In addition, the educators will visit KKL-JNF's different sites, at the KKL-JNF's field schools and heritage locations as Degania and Hatzer Kinneret. All this is meant to bring the educators closer to Israel and to KKL-JNF's Zionist activity.
According to Sher Shalom-Jerby, Director of the Education and Community Division at the KKL-JNF, "We are interested in training educators and headmasters to work with KKL-JNF and use the educational content of the Education and Community Division. In their visit to KKL-JNF sites and heritage sites all over Israel, that reach their peak in a Sabbath celebration in Jerusalem, we aim at strengthening the Zionist identity of the educators abroad, and their students' connection to Israel."
Rabbi Yamin Ben-Arush of Montreal, who participates in the seminar, said, "I'm exteremly happy to be here today, in the KKL-JNF seminar. It is exciting to see and experience everything that we teach about in the class. Now we can take this knowledge and bring it to our schools and community in Montreal. Thank you, KKL-JNF, for this wonderful initiative."