“I like doing things for the future of the Jewish people. With my work at the Jewish Agency, I feel like I am really doing something for my soul and that I am contributing to Israeli society.”

Already at the age of five, Liat Damoza had experienced more than most people do in a lifetime. Her family fled Ethiopia in 1982 and spent nearly two years as refugees in the Sudan before they were smuggled into Europe and eventually reached Israel. Liat grew up near Haifa and did her national service as a counselor in a boarding school for new olim who came to Israel without their families and native Israelis from troubled home environments. “After that experience it was very obvious to me that I should study something connected to education,” she says. More