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AACI
May 2008 Group Pilot Trip
as of April
14th, 2008
Monday May 26 8:30 am: Orientation: AACI Pilot trips Co-Directors Ilene Bloch-Levy and Ronda Israel 9:30 am: Lecture: "Education – How Education for your children in Israel is a lot different than…" 11:00 am: Privileges and Benefits for New Immigrants – Jewish Agency 12:30 pm: Lunch 1:30 pm: Ma’ale Adumim Community Visit 4:00 pm: Two Jerusalem neighborhood community visits (Communal Aliyah Program city) 6:00 pm: AACI offices in Jerusalem. Mincha. Employment workshop with AACI employment counselors, followed by short personal consultations. Dinner 8:30 pm: Return to hotel Tuesday, May 27 8:30 am: Board Bus 9:30 am – 11:00 am: Givat Ze’ev Community Visit 11:30 am: Modi’in Community Visit (Communal Aliyah Program City) 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Lunch / Mincha. Lecture: "Insurances – Car, Home, Life, Health etc" 3:30 pm: Lecture: "Health Care, Choosing a Kupat Cholim, Supplementary Coverage" 5:00 pm: Beit Shemesh Community Visit 6:00 pm: Ramat Beit Shemesh Community Visit Return
to hotel. Dinner Wednesday, May 28 8:00 am: Check out of hotel 9:00 am: Yad Binyamin Community Visit 11:00 am: Even Shmuel, a new affordable community in the making 1:30 pm: Meitar Community Visit, lunch 3:45 am: Be’er Sheva Community Visit – An Affordable place in the sun! 7:00 pm: Check in to hotel in Netanya 7:15
pm: Dinner Thursday, May 29 8:00 am: Board bus 9:00 am: Haifa Community Visit (Communal Aliyah Program city) 12:30 pm: Zichron Ya’akov Community Visit 3:45 pm: Ariel Community Visit (Communal Aliyah Program city) 6:45 pm: Hotel in Netanya, Lecture: "Banking – Credit, Debit, Mortgage and Finance” Friday, February 30 8:00 am: Check out of hotel 8:30 am: Mazkeret Batya Community Visit 11:00 am: Rehovot Community Visit 1:30 pm: Ashdod Community Visit and Lecture: "Shipping - What to Bring, What to Toss, What to Know”. Lunch 4:00 pm: Drop off for Shabbat – drop off spots and Jerusalem Shabbat
will be spent in the community of your choice.
If you prefer to make your own arrangements, please do so, or if
you would like to spend Shabbat in one of the communities on the itinerary
please let us know two weeks in advance so we can make those Shabbat
arrangements for home hospitality for you. Sunday June 1 The day is left open to you for several options: 1. You may use this day to meet with potential employers. 2. You may use this time to return, on your own, to a community you particularly liked to further explore living there and rental options. 3. You may arrange to meet with an AACI counselor in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya, Haifa or Beer Sheva (by prior appointment only!) to discuss your own situation with a member of AACI's professional staff. 4. You may have a further personal consultation with an AACI employment counselor in Jerusalem. 5. You may use this day to meet with a private Education specialist to discuss particular issues you have with your own children and their special needs in the Israeli school systems, or to meet with any other "experts" in areas in which you have special concerns or needs. 6. You may decide that a shorter trip fits into your personal work schedule and leave Saturday night. OPTIONAL: Sunday evening at 8:00 pm. Kehillat Moreshet Avraham in Jerusalem's East Talpiot neighborhood has invited us to be their guests for a Yom Yerushalayim program. Featured speaker is Hon. Danny Ayalon, former Israel Ambassador to US, and now Co-chair of Nefesh B'Nefesh. There will also be a Special Choir performance of songs about Yerushalayim and a Jerusalem sing-along (and maybe even dance-along…). L'hitraot U'bHatzlacha!! Page Up |