Increase the Light: Wexner Community Chanukah Candle Lighting with WIF Alum Nadav Tamir Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives Opening and Closing Song: Banu Choshech L’Garesh / We Have Come to Banish the Darkness. Original Hebrew lyrics by Sara Levi-Tanai (1960), performed by Noah Aronson and Banot The Wexner Foundation Hanukkah Video
Source Sheet can be found here. For a list of Wexner Israel Alumni and their initiatives, click here.
Session 6 – Embracing the Land and the People- Avi Bitron (WIF 15) and Shay Jean (WSL 2016) Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives Opening Song: Ha Chita Tzomachat Shuv/ “The Wheat Grows Again,” by Dorit Tzameret (1974) Dorit was a member of Kibbutz Beit HaShita, which lost 11 men in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The song has become a core part of Yom Hazikaron/Remembrance Day “liturgy” in
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Ilana Yahav/TWF Chanukah Message
In this season when we yearn for light, we partnered with Ilana Yahav, a magical artist featured on Israel’s Got Talent, to create a unique Chanukah message this year. Please watch, be mesmerized, and share her creation widely. Thank you, Noah Aronson, and Banot for the music. Now please, hit play.
Session 5 – Focus on Learning and Social Needs of Children at Risk, Moshe Keinan (WIF 8) and Orli Garti-Seroussi (WIF 8) Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives Opening Song: Achot K’tana/Little Sister, by Moshe Peretz, (2017) Closing Song: Matanot K’tanot/Little Gifts, by Rami Kleinstein (2016) Orli Garti-Seroussi PowerPoint Moshe Keinan PowerPoint
Session 4 – Supporting Evacuated Communities, Amit David WIF 22 and Alit Wiel Shafran WIF 29 Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives Opening Song: I am filled with love (יש בי אהבה) by Arik Einstein Closing Song: Pink Glasses (משקפיים ורודות ) by Arik Einstein
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Rays of Light: Session 3, Supporting Hospitals
Session 3 – Supporting Hospitals, Dr. Tamar Elram, WIF 22 and Dr. Shmulik Hirschmann, WSL 16 Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives Opening Song: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970), Simon & Garfunkel Closing Song: Who By Fire? (Live in Austin, 1988), Leonard Cohen
Session 2 – Supporting Kibbutz Nir Oz, Sivan Lehavi WSL 23 and Havatzelet Yahel WIF 18 Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives Opening Song: “Anachnu Lo Tzrichim”/ We Don’t Need More Than This (2000), Shlomo Artzi Closing Song: “Yihieh Tov” / It Will Be Ok (2023), Yasmin Moallem
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Rays of Light: Session 1, Post-Traumatic Care
Rays of Light Session 1: Post-Traumatic Care- Carmel Satinger WSL 16 & Keren Morag WIF 13 Full List of Wexner Israeli Alumni Initiatives All videos, resources, and PowerPoints shared in this session can be found below. Opening Song: Etzlenu Bagan/ In Our Kindergarten (2015), Shaylee Atary Video: Work being done with IMFA to support hospitals PowerPoint: Social Finance Israel Video: Partners in Fate – Arab citizens heroic rescue of Jews
Session 4: Thursday September 7, with Rabbi Shai Held (WGF/DS 7) – “Turning Suffering into Love: The Torah’s Revolutionary Mandate” Author, President and Dean of the Hadar Institute. You can find the source sheet used in this video here.
