Nathalie Alyon   
Nathalie expected to launch a website for the Turkish Community in the U. S. and Turkey to share news about Israel in Turkish.  Nathalie set up a coalition with a Turkish group, planned the site, and selected articles to translate.  Shortly before going live, some of the Turkish activists received death threats and were concerned about having the site, so Nathalie had to abandon this plan.  Instead she wrote a paper titled “Subtleties of the Turkish Elections and Turkish-Israeli Relations” as well as an Op Ed which she sent to several publications.

Cindy Bernstein
Cindy created and implemented a seminar series for 40 Russian immigrant students in a Brooklyn yeshiva to teach them about Israel.  The first lesson dealt with Anti-Semitism, with a tie-in to why it is critical to have Israel as a homeland for all Jews. She also joined Judd and Salomon’s project by helping to recruit participants for the second seminar.

Frederiqua de Courten and Efrat Israeli-Korn
Frederiqua designed a special day for the reserve soldiers in a particular unit, and was joined by Efrat in implementing it.  Recreation was combined with a seminar on Israel Advocacy, with Frederiqua training the soldiers on how to rebut claims such as those in Amnesty International articles, and how to handle media questions and/or attacks with legal and factual points.  Efrat then explained the role of the media and how to deal with difficult questions.  The solders benefited greatly from this interactive session.

Samantha Facciolo
Samie designed and launched a web site to promote study abroad in Israel called IsraelEncounters.com.  She solicited articles and pictures from students who had spent a year abroad in Israel, and put them on the website as a way of encouraging others to spend a year in Israel. The articles featured diverse highlights from students who spend a year in Israel

Toby Frankenstein
Toby examined the UN particularly in terms of its votes on Israel, and then crunched the numbers. He will be putting this information up on the UN Watch website. He also examined each UN agency’s relationship with Israel and will include that information as well. It will give visitors to the site a clear sense of the bias against Israel perpetrated in the U.N..

Ari Fridman
Ari designed and led a 6 part Israel education series for a group of high school students in a Sunday School class.  The series began with the Arab-Israeli history of Israel and concluded with a workshop on how to write effective Letters to the Editor.  He utilized power point presentations and interactive sessions to make it more engaging.  Ari encouraged all of the students to submit Letters to local newspapers on a relevent topic about Israel.

Emanuelle Girsowicz and Elie Isaacson
Emanuelle and Elie coordinated a dinner meeting between twelve members of the European Parliament and their counterparts from the Knesset, in Israel, during a trip the Europeans made. They worked with European Friends of Israel to implement this. MK Colette Avital hosted the meeting, during which time the participants agreed to do a joint parliamentary trip to Auschwitz during the coming year.

Avi Hein and Anna Melman
Avi and Anna developed and created a website called VoicesfromIsrael.com featuring Israelis from different walks of life telling stories about their lives in Israel.  They selected people from a range of experience, each of whom had a different story to tell. Their goal was to portray Israel as multi-faceted, and Israelis as people with varying interests and strengths, trying to lead normal lives.

Salomon Kalach and Judd Rothstein
Salomon and Judd teamed up to work on two seminars for young future Jewish leaders. The first focused on the UN and also took place there.  Israeli tour guides took the group around the UN, and that was followed by talks about Israel’s special relationship with the UN.  Judd took the lead on this one, while Salomon was the point person for the follow-up seminar at JCPA, which trained the participants in how to do Israel Advocacy, with a focus on coalition building.

Chaim Landau and Jardena Lande
Chaim and Jardena developed and led a seminar to train 30 students about how to lobby, after they witnessed the UN Council on Human Rights in action.  They then had the students go to meet representatives from the Council.  In order to continue the training and communication, they then set up a yahoo group for the participants.

Yariv Nornberg
When his original project of trying to have Israel join the Eurail network did not materialize, Yariv led a number of sessions through a program called the Global Classroom, which features people from different countries speaking in New York City schools about their country. He described Israel in an interactive manner, and gave the children postcards in order to write to him afterwards.  He has since received quite a few postcards from them.

Stephen Rosenthal:
Stephen launched a program called Advoc8 for seniors in high school.  He led two courses, one for ten weeks, and a second for 4, utilizing video and other media.  All of the sessions were interactive, and the resources he utilized are now all on line.

Yael Weisz:
A native Spanish speaker, Yael lectured to Spanish speaking foreign delegations visiting Israel.  For instance, she spoke to a delegation from Bnai Brith about the Arab-Israel population and the dilemma of equal rights.  She also initiated a blog that features relevant articles.