Studying for a BA in religious studies and environmental science at the Hebrew University, Bar Rapaport has one year left in her degree. Having left JACC this summer after three years at the organization, Bar is still invested in the program she ran and wants it to continue to expand. She said she wants the Hebrew program, which until recently she coordinated, to have more professional classes and a curriculum and workbooks that are more relevant to the community the classes

​​When he’s not co-coordinating JACC’s Hebrew language program, Yuval Karshai works for an organization called the Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET) that brings together young Palestinians and Israelis to learn computer science. He said he thinks the reaction of much of Israeli society to Palestinians and asylum-seekers comes from the same sources: fear and ignorance. “People don’t know Palestinians,” Yuval said. “They don’t know asylum seekers.” From this can aris