“As a lone soldier, the Nativ program totally reaffirrmed my Jewish and Zionist identity. It helped me to see the amazing connection between our people’s culture, history, religion and nationhood.”

When he was 13-years-old Rony Vexelman’s parents gave him a choice for his Bar Mitzvah: to have a big party in his native Peru or at the Western Wall. Rony’s choice to go to Israel completely changed the course of his life. More