Ron Jacobsohn Meets the Young Jews of the Birthright Russia Tour

Celebrating their Jewish identity around one thousand youngsters from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have come to Israel on a birthright tour and tonight they will celebrate with israeli counterparts at the ICC in Jerusalem in what is heralded as the Birthright Mega Event.
Over the past fifteen years Birthright has brought around Jews from 65 countries on their first trip to Israel. Although the North American missions are better known, to date around ten percent of the total Birthright participants come from the former Soviet Union countries.

 

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