Duration: 5 or 10 months
Start/End Dates: September - February (Fall); February - June (Spring)
Program Cost: 5 months: $6,500 (Single), $5,500 (Shared)
10 months: $9,500 (Single), $8,500 (Shared)
Estimated Masa Israel Universal Grant: 5 months: $3,000, 10 months: $4,500*
The award-winning Tikkun Olam in Tel Aviv-Jaffa offers college graduates the opportunity to volunteer and study in low-income neighborhoods of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Community Service Track participants live in the working-class Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kiryat Shalom and work in South Tel Aviv’s poor Jewish neighborhoods and growing foreign worker and refugee community. Coexistence Track participants live in historic Jaffa and volunteer in community centers and organizations that promote Arab-Israeli coexistence and understanding.