Allie Darrow- Growing up in the Reform movement in the Bay Area, she first caught a whiff of Israeli culture through a synagogue youth group leader. So when she had a chance to visit Israel for herself on a Birthright trip in 2009 she jumped at the chance. After that she was hooked. Read More. 

Galia Moss – Galia Moss from Mexico is preparing to sail solo from Mexico to
Israel where she will make Aliyah. The Jewish Agency is a major
sponsor of this journey.
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Maren Pyenson and Bruce Abramson - When Maren Pyenson and Bruce Abramson of San Francisco decided to get married and began planning their January wedding, they were certain about one thing: They didn't want any gifts. Not the material kind, anyway.  Instead, they decided to use their wedding as an opportunity to encourage friends and family to give a real gift to those in need. 
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Shira Protas - Small circles of young Israelis dot a stretch of lawn on a kibbutz outside Netanya. Deep in conversation, the participants sit cross legged or stretch out, listening intently, debating. It isn't summer camp - but rather training for Jewish summer camp, North American style, for the extraordinary young Israelis hand-picked by the Jewish Agency to be shlichim - emissaries – at Jewish camps from all the leading youth and community organizations throughout North America.
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Wilf Rosenberg - When Wilf Rosenberg arrived in Israel in late December 2009 on a group Aliyah flight, reporters were waiting for him at the airport. After all, the 76-year-old South African is considered one of the greatest rugby players of all time. 
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Mirav Tzighon - At the age of ten, Mirav Tzighon started a new life for herself in Israel, leaving behind her entire world on the farming village where she grew up outside Gondar. Today, she is the proud owner of her own cosmetics company, MULU.D, thanks to a loan from the New York Loan Fund for Israel. Read More.

Anna and Michael Tarasov - The 38 year-old attorney, who emigrated from Minsk with his wife and two children, settled in Kibbutz Mashabei Sadeh in the Negev, one of the participating kibbutzim throughout Israel's northern and southern regions that serve as a warm, supportive "first home" for new immigrants.
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Bella Lvovich - Growing up in Tashkent, Bella Lvovich would have never guessed that one day she would return to her childhood home – only this time as an Israeli emissary. But that's exactly what happened. "I grew up here and now I'm back as an Israeli who teaches and works for the Jewish Agency. It's like coming full circle. It's very emotional," said Lvovich. Read More.

Caroline Reder - While her friends back in America are pounding the pavement looking for work or taking refuge in graduate school, 23-year-old Caroline Reder has spent the past 10-months working for the Debt Unit of Israel's Ministry of Finance where, among other things she was instrumental in the behind-the-scenes work for a EUR141.0 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the State of Israel. Read More.

Pablo Laufer - As vice president of BAMA (Beit Hamechanech Hayehudi - Home to the Jewish Educator), a volunteer position he's held since last february, Laufer recently spent a week in Israel as a guest of the Jewish Agency, discussing BAMA's new vision as it looks to the future.
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Sami Bollag - Sami Bollag's family has called Switzerland home for over 200 years, but the successful businessman and philanthropist is in Israel so often, it is his home away from home. "I have always been connected to Jewish life," Bollag told the JEWISH AGENCY on a recent visit to Israel. A resident of Zurich, he comes to Israel up to ten times a year and has a home in Neve Zedek. Read More.

Budapest is bursting with Jewish life and culture. Just ask Szilvi Somlai. Born and raised in Budapest, she works as the post-Taglit Birthright Israel and Masa Israel coordinator for the Jewish Agency in Hungary. She is also an integral part of the team spearheading the Israeli Cultural Institute (ICI), an exciting and wide-reaching center launched by the Jewish Agency that opens its doors September 1, 2010. Read More.