Shinshinim

Yali

Shalom everyone, I’m Yali the new shinshiniot and I’m super excited to be here. I’m so grateful for this opportunity. I already can tell what an amazing community this is and how lucky I am to be a small part of it. Thank you.

I really wanna get to know everyone here and I have one year to do so but for a start maybe you can get to know me a little.

So nice to meet you all, I’m Yali Rachel Rosenblum. I’m 18 years old and I’m from Givat Shmuel which is a city 20 min from Tel Aviv, even though every city in the centre is 20 minutes from Tel Aviv. I’m the third of four sisters, Ella, Tamar and Bilby, Libi. and my parents, Rami and Dafna. I can say that I really miss them and love them so much. I say this like they can hear because they can, my mother is watching me right now from the zoom, love you mom.

I really love traveling, specifically in Israel,and especially with my friends. One of my dreams is to travel the world, and I believe that I will do that one day!

I love to cook and bake but I'm not saying that I’m good at it, I just love to do it, and I also worked in a bakery.

I was a part of the youth movement B'nei Akiva for eight years, which in two of these years I was Madricha for the best girls! In B'nei Akiva I met some of my best friends and I'm so grateful for them.

I have never thought that I’ll be a shinshiniot, but from the moment I heard about this program I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do.

I want to bring my little piece of Israel to you, to connect all of us together, and give as much as I can.

And for me to learn and experience, and form my own Jewish identity. I can already say that I gained and learned so much and I’m just two weeks in. So thank you again .

Well there is a lot more to say and for that we have a year, but now it’s my time to get to know you all and of course for you to get to know Tamar.

Thank you!

Tamar

Hey everyone! I’m Tamar. Wow, this is really crazy. The 15 year old me could have never believed that she’d be standing here right now. So thank you for this amazing opportunity.

As Yali said, just before we’ll get to know you, here’s a great opportunity for you to get to know me a little.

I’m Tamar Shaul, I'm almost 18 years old and I'm from Hod Hasharon which is a city in the center of Israel, that yes, you guessed right, is 30 min from Tel Aviv…

I’m the middle child to my amazing parents Shlomi and Meirav and a sister to my brothers - Omri and Nitay.  And of course, I can’t forget about my sweet dog Phoebe, that between us, she’s the one I miss the most.

I have always loved art, all kinds of it. I love painting and drawing, I've been playing the guitar for the past 5 years and I've been singing my whole life and even played in two musicals in my high school. Another fun fact about me is that I used to dance flamenco, I've danced for 10 years!

In the past 7 years I was a part of the youth movement “כנפיים של קרמבו” - krembo wings which is a youth movement for kids with and without special needs. I was a מדריכה for two years and than a רכזת - which means that I was in charge of a group of 8 other מדריכים and it was amazing!

Standing here and speaking to you now is truly a dream come true for me. To be honest, I've always thought that I wouldn’t do any kind of a gap year after high school and that I would go straight to the army… but as soon as I heard about this amazing program, I just knew that this is the right place for me. The perfect place for me to bring pieces from Israel to other people, to connect with the Jewish community around the world and to learn so much about myself from doing so.

I have so much more to talk about with you and I’m so glad that we have a whole year for that!

As for now, we invite you to come tomorrow  to our welcome back BBQ and of course to all of our programs during the year.

Thank you so much and Shabbat Shalom!