Mission
MIT Israeli
Association will bring together Israelis at MIT, and will be a home
away from home
The Association will
connect Israeli students and professors from all faculties and campuses of
MIT - undergraduates, graduates, Sloanies, PhDs, faculty, affiliates, and
families - in order to build a community around Israeli holidays, Hebrew
spoken events, and shared interests.
The Association will
provide assistance to new members with regards to settling in, and a framework
for its existing members looking to celebrate Israeli holidays, watch Israeli
football games, and go to Israeli performances together.
As we evolve, we
hope to connect new and old members of the community, assist in job hunting
back home, expand the connection between universities in Israel and MIT, and
serve as the contact organization for any Israel related issues.
History
During the academic
year of 2007-2008 two undergraduate students who simply missed
home - Sharon Rapoport (2010) and Itai Turbahn (2011) - founded
the MIT Israeli Association.
Since then, the MIT
Israel Association has been recognized by the MIT Association of Student
Activities, went from 2 (2008) to 40 (2010) to over a 100 members (2012), and
regularly hosted friends from Harvard, BU, Brandeis, UMass, and the rest
of the Greater Boston area.
The Association held
and sponsored numerous events bringing the community together, such as the
periodic Israeli Bar Nights, the Annual First Hanukkah Candle
lighting, and the Annual Yom Ha'atzmaut BBQ. For more information on our
events, please see our Events page.
