Taglit-Birthright Israel provides the gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. Taglit-Birthright Israel's founders created this program to send thousands of young Jewish adults from all over the world to Israel as a gift in order to diminish the growing division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world; to strengthen the sense of solidarity among world Jewry; and to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish people.

Although the international Jewish community is ultimately connected through religion and the State of Israel’s existence, the American population does not understand modern Israeli society. Generally, Americans are taught about biblical Israel and the Jewish connection to it, but they are unable to catch a glimpse of 21st century Israeli culture...more