In order to expand the circle of Partnership activity, we opened at November 2007, a leadership course for 22 volunteers.

The objective of the course is to train active community leaders committed to the idea of the Partnership, its goals and modes of operation - individuals who will join existing task forces and become the partnership's future generation of leaders.

The participants are active members of the Akko and Matte Asher communities and regional bodies, employees of the institutions involved in Partnership 2000, individuals with an orientation toward, and experience in, the areas of leadership, management, entrepreneurship and development - individuals who share an interest in, and the ability to contribute to, Partnership 2000.

The program includes 15 sessions focus on Personal and interpersonal communication, group communication and group consolidation, Identities like personal identity, Jewish identity, volunteering identity, Jewish Communities and federations in the US, and management skills for volunteer activities.

During the last weeks we hosted Mark Freedman, the Executive director of San Antonio federation for a session about US Culture and Jewry and Rabbi Arie Azriel from Omaha that exposed the participants to the Reform movement.

The participants had the privilege to meet with the last Steering Committee members and the Leadership group from Omaha.

As part of this course the group visited Jerusalem for two days. At the first day they were exposed to the Jewish Agency for Israel programs like MASA and the Global Center, visited at the Hertzel museum and met with representative of the UJC. At the second day they tour the Old city and Mahane Yehuda market.

On December 2008 the participants will visit the Jewish communities of Omaha and San Antonio and until that they will start to be involved in the different Partnership programs.