Today we are shocked, saddened, and horrified to learn of the brutal murder of Hallel Yaffa Ariel – a 13-year old Israeli girl with American citizenship – who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist as she slept in her bed in Kiryat Arba, Israel.

On behalf of the Israeli-American community, we condemn this terrorism attack in the...

Today was a really fun and successful day! My team worked hard on building our presentation and pitching it to many different mentors and counselors. We got some great advice and feedback and we are feeling nervous but more prepared for the demo day tomorrow!

The Israeli-American Council is shocked and horrified by the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of more than 36 people yesterday at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. Whether terrorists target innocents at a concert hall in Paris, an airport in Istanbul, a nightclub in Orlando, or a market in Tel Aviv, the international community and all...

Today we finished our research and are successfully making a prototype. All our fields are doing major work and accomplishing our goals. Marketing is doing well in making advertisements and product development is almost finished with the product. Our logo has been figured out and the website logic is halfway complete. Research has gathered the...

During our three-hour Hacking session, our group (a.k.a H2O4U) has had to overcome many challenges, while still enjoying the process of working with our teammates and finding out more about each other. A highlight from our day was finishing up our logo (created by Ela and Jan), that accurately represents our idea and the company’s goals and...

We started today with absolutely nothing done, not even an idea, and at this point we have started the Social Media Revolution of MyMayim. Today is truly a demonstration of how much work a group of people can get done in just a few short hours once they have learned to trust each other. In the first hour we were very confused and did not know...

With thousands in attendance, Celebrate Israel is the largest celebration for Israel in the State of Florida. This year the main stage entertainment was Chico & the Gypsies, and Mashina. Throughout the day, all who attended was provided a true Israeli experience with over 60 local organizations, artists, and businesses.

Over 140 members of the community experienced an Israeli style Shabbat dinner, celebration of Shavuot and Israeli sing-along. The event would not be possible without the huge help of our IAC Engage community volunteers, our IAC DC Council and sponsors who made it possible. The night was concluded with a community cheese cake competition.

Over 25 Israeli American families, many of Israelis that married Americans, at the Greater Metrowest area in New Jersey, gathered at temple B'nai Or in Morristown to welcome Shabbat as a community. We lit candles and blessed over the wine and Challa led by the Israeli Chazanit of the temple. This event is an initiative of IAC Meetchabrim...

Efrat Leket Was a lecture that combined tips, personal experience and story of a mom that been through the straggle between doing the best for your kids and taking care of yourself as well. She showed us examples of how to build your child self-esteem and taught the kids to be independents.

Over 30 Israeli-American young professionals met with Gilad Meiri, an expert in outdoor cooking who became the founder of a internet-of-things startup, who taught them the basics of poike cooking while sharing successes and failures in the high-tech world and his experience with social-entrepreneurship.

Our partner organization IAX, continues its leadership role in pushing forward the anti-BDS bill in California. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a resolution in support of Asm Bloom’s anti-BDS legislation and specifically requested that the language which was stripped out of the bill be restored. There were many parts of our...

Together with the Jewish Federation and JCRC, the IAC mobilized the community to participate in a solidarity gathering at Max Brenner in Maryland following the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv this week. A member of the community, Dikla Hazony, shared the story of her beloved cousin, Ido Ben Ari Z”L, who was the first victim from the attack.

150 community members showed up all in white for a Shishi Israeli - Shavuot Kibbutz Style with Bicurim parade, folklore dancing and accordion music.  Connecting our local Holocaust survivors with the young next generation was the highlight of the evening.

IAC Boston & IAC Las Vegas were honored to co-sponsor the 1st Annual International Catchball Tournament that took place in Las Vegas, with teams from Calgary-Canada, Boston and Las Vegas. IAC’s network has no borders and the teams are looking forward to include more IAC communities around the country for next year’s Catchball tournament....

The topic of the last Eitanim's session of the year was ‘Design a Mascot’ and the focus was marketing. We met with Assaf Swissa, Creative Director at Superdigital and the person in charge of the digital marketing of Julian Edelman, Patriot’s football star. Assaf gave the participants tips and ideas about branding, while also explaining how he...

Following recent incidents of Anti-Semitism in Newton Public Schools, Merkaz IAC hosted a panel on combating Anti-Semitism and racial injustice with Mr. Setti Warren, Mayor of Newton, Mr. Ilan Segev, Co-Chair of IAC Boston, and Robert O. Trestan, Regional Director of ADL. It was decided that the panel is a beginning of a joint process of Mayor...

Over 320 people attend the BBQ and bonfire, which included fun for both adults and kids.

In what has become an IAC Los Angeles tradition, the community came together to celebrate the harvest festival of Shavuot Israeli style. More than 2,500 people, and 14 different organizations, celebrated at the new IAC Shepher Community Center and enjoyed the many engaging activities.

A group of dedicated mothers from Queens organized a tween gathering with the support of the IAC Keshet team to introduce to the families IAC Eitanim program and to engage them for next year program. The mothers that met through our meetchabrim gathering few months ago put together a cooking class and facilitated a discussion about the...

Last week we celebrated Unity Day in Boston. The event began with a short clip showing Israeli-American and Jewish-American children from Boston sharing their connections to Israel. The clip was filmed and edited by local volunteers - watch the clip. The main speaker was...

IAC Eitanim held their final session this week. Meeting with their special guest, Micha Reiss, one of the worlds most renowned brand masters (National Geographic, ESPN and many more) they discussed the meaning and the depth of the concept of branding beyond the surface of the logo. The students raised the bar by designing a 3-D mascot to the...

The IAC is proud to escort and to be the sponsor of this week's official California delegation to Israel which explores the country from north to south discovering unique solutions in the water and agriculture technology sectors. Read Adam's blog post to learn more.

Over 100 participant, more than 15% American, Joined together for a dual language Tikun Leil Shavuot. The initiative, led by over 20 lay leaders, most of them IAC Gvanim graduates, took place at the Kaplen JCC in Tenafly. For over 5 hours the participants heard Rabbi Danni Segal, participated in unique workshops and sang Shavuot songs. The...

The IAC was honored to take part in a special Anti-BDS Summit organized by Ambassador Danny Danon at the United Nations and our CEO had the privilege to bt the keynote of one of the sessions. Read here the full speech...

Our partner organization, Israeli American Nexus, organized coalition to visit Senator Herzberg's office with Israeli Americans, Jewish American, Persian Jews and Mishelanu students from CSUN and UCLA.

IAC Eitanim DC finished their last session of the year, discussing how to design their Eitanim mascot! The various groups debated what was the most preferable design and agreed on shared principles. One of the students concluded:  ''it gave me information and perspective about Israel that I didn't know before, and provided real hands-on skills...

IAC Beyachad had a great Shavuot event with 35 kids and just over 60 participants in total. The kids had a great time baking and doing arts and crafts.